Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

climbing-boy

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English

Syllables
climb-ing-boy
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A chimney sweep's young male assistant who climbed up the chimneys.

Inflected Forms

climbing-boys (plural)

Questions

What does climbing-boy mean?
A chimney sweep's young male assistant who climbed up the chimneys.

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