private stock
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.74 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[T]o feed 126 souls, we had but . . . Three ham-sandwiches, and a pot of currant-jelly, and 197 bottles of brandy, rum, madeira, pale ale (my private stock) . . ."
- "The refreshment was brought in, and before the session adjourned, they had lowered the contents of a black bottle of private stock by several fingers."
- ""And after all I've done for her," said Mr. Reginald Cracknell, his voice tremulous with self-pity and his eyes moist with the combined effects of anguish and over-indulgence in his celebrated private stock, "after all I've done for her she throws me down.""
- "And it is heartening to be able to find a good and heady mutton chop to accompany a club member's claret from his private stock."
- "2004, Robert Priest, How to Swallow a Pig, →ISBN, (Google preivew)" Then he takes out a bottle of his own private stock, finds himself a flower or some butterflies, and proceeds to get very drunk."
- "Booker employed his private stock as a late afternoon delight for visitors to the Boston distillery."