Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

string bean

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables: string bean
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any long, slender green bean.

noun

Any long, slender green bean.

noun

Any long, slender green bean.

noun

Any long, slender green bean.

noun

Any long, slender green bean.

noun

A tall and thin person.

Example Sentences

"Summer squashes almost in their golden blossom; cucumbers, now evincing a tendency to spread away from the main stock, and ramble far and wide; two or three rows of string-beans and as many more that were about to festoon themselves on poles;"
"Well, I rung the fallout shelter bell / And I leaned my head and I gave a yell / “Give me a string bean, I’m a hungry man” / A shotgun fired and away I ran"
"My way o’ doing things suits me, and I don’t figure on changing it for you or any other half-baked young string-bean."
"She was once a tall stringbean of a girl whom the boys called “Red” in high school."

Etymology

Named for the tough, fibrous string running along the length of the pod (even though it is not present in some modern varieties).

Inflected Forms

string beans (plural) stringbean (alternative) string-bean (alternative)

Derived Forms

stringbeany

Questions

What does string bean mean?: Any long, slender green bean.
Where does string bean come from?: Named for the tough, fibrous string running along the length of the pod (even though it is not present in some modern varieties).

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