Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

horse and rabbit stew

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.36 in modern English

Syllables: horse and rab-bit stew
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

2

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mixture of the crude and the delicate in grossly unequal quantities, with the crude overwhelmingly dominant.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Also, in alleging that nonmarket parameters are not measurable, in some sense, proponents of the argument from horse and rabbit stew appear to forget that ..."
"a Filipino representative at the Greenlake, 1981 conference said that the ‘…partnership is often like the proverbial “horse and rabbit stew” supposedly mixed in equal proportions, that is, one horse to one rabbit.'"

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

horse and rabbit stews (plural)

Questions

What does horse and rabbit stew mean?: A mixture of the crude and the delicate in grossly unequal quantities, with the crude overwhelmingly dominant.

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