Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cobette

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: co-bette
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small portion of corn on the cob, less than the whole ear.

Example Sentences

"I'll cook clams, lobsters—hot-and-spicy red potatoes and corn cobettes."
"Processing budgets were completed for these seven frozen products: strawberries, strawberry jam, sliced green beans, cut corn, corn (cobettes), sliced apples, and apple puree."
"Sitting late one night again in a burger bar, where I munched into some fries and a corn cobette, I mentioned my vegetarianism to Joshua and how I just felt a deep-rooted belief it was morally wrong to kill animals for us to eat […]"

Etymology

From cob + -ette.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: cob

Inflected Forms

cobettes (plural)

Questions

What does cobette mean?: A small portion of corn on the cob, less than the whole ear.
Where does cobette come from?: From cob + -ette.

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