sugarbag
/ˈʃʊɡɚbæɡ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Bradly hung the fowl in a sugar-bag for to-morrow's dinner and set about grilling chops, with tomatoes stuffed with cheese and breadcrumbs in the pan."
- "He took the reeking sack as if there were indeed huskies waiting to devour its contents and added it to his load: a sugarbag of provisions, a bottle of fresh water from the tap in the yard that went stright down to another invisible river that flowed far beneath their feet."
- "Still clinging, with sharp, expert blows she tomahawked into the hollow, exactly at the spot where the sugar-bag was."
- "One day Djungun said to his wives, 'I will help you to hunt for sugarbag.'"
- "That way — north. And he tryin to go right to Akwerrkepentye. And he reckon he bin seein 'What's this one?' And he can hearem, you know. 'Ay, sugarbag, some one. Might be sugarbag here.' And he can hearem, 'Ah, yeah, sugarbag, all right.'"
- "Two significant resources requiring special tools were tree grubs and wild honey or 'sugarbag'."
Etymology
From sugar + bag; sense 2 (“wild honey or honeycomb”) was originally a word used by Aboriginal Australians.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈʃʊɡɚbæɡ/
- British English: /ˈʃʊɡəbæɡ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
sugarbag bee