Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blucher

/ˈbluːkə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English

Syllables: blucher
IPA: /ˈbluːkə/

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.

noun

A sturdy laced leather half-boot.

name

In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning sextuple, or losing treble the fixed stake (an amount agreed upon before the game begins).

name

A rural municipality in central Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Blucher No. 343.

name

A community within the rural municipality in Saskatchewan.

noun

Alternative form of blucher.

Example Sentences

"He whistled tunelessly his one air, beating his own time with a stick on the toe of his blucher, then looked overhead at the sun and calculated that she must have been lying like that for `close up an hour.'"

Etymology

Named from Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), a Prussian general.

Inflected Forms

bluchers (plural)

Synonyms

von blucher g. l. von blucher gebhard leberecht von blucher

Rhymes With

snooker lucre filthy lucre puker spruiker

Questions

How do you pronounce blucher?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbluːkə/.
What does blucher mean?: A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
Where does blucher come from?: Named from Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), a Prussian general.

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