wino
/ˈwaɪnəʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.
Example Sentences
- "My grandmother was a Puerto Rican wino from Spanish Harlem named Migdalia, but everybody called her Mimi. My moms and Aunt Dru were her only kids. Mimi was a tall, light-skinned woman with long wavy hair and high cheekbones. She drank cheap wine and laughed all day long."
- "Near-synonyms: bum, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond"
- "I came out in an alley where a couple of winos were picking through a trash bin."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y-? Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ōder. Proto-Italic *wīnom Latin vīnumbor. Proto-Germanic *wīną Proto-West Germanic *wīn Old English wīn Middle English wyn English wine Latin ō Old French ohbor. Middle English o English O ▲ Middle English o English oh English -o English wino From wine + -o (“person with characteristic”).