Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

belaired

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-laired
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Stuck in mud, bogged down (Scottish)

Example Sentences

"'I darna gang to her at night.—Gude be wi' us! an I war to find her at her cantrips, I had better be belaired in a bog, or play coupcarling owre the craig o' Dalwhirry.'"

Inflected Forms

more belaired (comparative) most belaired (superlative)

Questions

What does belaired mean?: Stuck in mud, bogged down (Scottish)

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