wild oats
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.38 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Youths would better look at the specimens of disease taken by the surgeon from innocent wives, and see how they tally with the “wild oats” of some husband’s youth before they begin sowing their own. ¶ There are thousands of syphilitics and tens of thousands of gonorrheics in every large city in the world. Add to these the other wild oats products, crime, pauperism, prostitution, inebriety and insanity"
- "You had a harem instinct when you were young. You sowed your wild oats. So did you, Mater."
- "To allay our fears, we cracked the occasional joke about free love and began half-seriously calling it the Wild Oats Project."