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decoyman

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
de-coy-man
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A man employed in decoying wildfowl.

Etymology

From decoy + man.

Inflected Forms

decoymen (plural)

Questions

What does decoyman mean?
A man employed in decoying wildfowl.
Where does decoyman come from?
From decoy + man.

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