addlings
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He din’t heve mich i t’way o addlins but it wor just enuff to get by."
- "[…] addlings, wages received for work. A gentleman has informed me, that in Nottinghamshire, and throughout the north, with some variation of sound, addle and addlings are now in use."
- "ADDLINGS, wages. "Poor addlings," small pay for work. "Hard addlings," money laboriously acquired. "Saving's good addling," as the well known saying, "a penny saved is a penny gained.""
- ""Addlings." Earnings. "Whoas a better house an' I hev? an' av gotten it together, stick be stick, an' ivvry bit on 't, wi' my awan addlings!" "This is my awan addling!" says a man, pulling out of his pocket a handful of silver and showing it to his comrade."
- "Short harvests make short addlings [earnings]. – YORKSHIRE."
- "My Dunfanaghy correspondent has also heard the noun addlings, though not of late. Addlings were a woman's earnings; money got by selling the odd dozen of eggs or by knitting for the factories or shops."