plaster
/ˈplæstɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
Canadian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage; Countable
Example Sentences
- "Then Jill came in, And she did grin, To see Jack's paper plaster; Her mother whipt her, Across her knee, For laughing at Jack's disaster."
- "Near-synonym: stucco (dedicated term for exterior type in some dialects)"
- "to plaster a wall"
- "to plaster a wound"
- "Her face was plastered with mud."
- "The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement."
Etymology
From Middle English plaster, plastre, from Old English plaster, from late Latin plastrum, shortened from Classical Latin emplastrum (“a plaster, bandage”); later reinforced by Anglo-Norman plastre. Displaced native Old English clīþa. The verb is from Middle English plastren, from the noun.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: plaster, plastrum, emplastrum, -, plastren
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈplæstɚ/
- British English: /ˈplɑːstə/