Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

calcutta hump

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English

Syllables: cal-cut-ta hump
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A salted hump of beef exported from Calcutta (present-day Kolkata).

Indian usage

Usage

Indian usage

Inflected Forms

Calcutta humps (plural)

Questions

What does calcutta hump mean?: A salted hump of beef exported from Calcutta (present-day Kolkata).

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