cottier
/kˈɑtiɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname from French.
Example Sentences
- "Because a cottier deeply in arrears to his landlord is not industrious, there are people who think that the Irish are naturally idle."
- "[W]hat he objects to giving, is a little return on rent-days to help a tenant to buy stock, or an outlay on repairs to keep the weather out at a tenant's barn-door or make his house look a little less like an Irish cottier's."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: Cottier