drinking-cup
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He took the drinking cup—funny, like a little teapot!—and held it to her white lips. She raised her hand weakly and took the drinking-cup. Then a faint shiver went through her body. The liquid in the drinking-cup spilled all over her nightgown."
- ""He smiled pleasantly as I said this, and then drew out of his coattail pocket a small tin box, which, until he opened it, I supposed contained a drinking-cup—one of those folding tin cups. […]""
- "Battered, exhausted, more dead than alive, she falls through the smoke hole of the house of the Ulster chieftain Etar and into a drinking-cup."
- "A good drinking-cup is fashioned of a parallelogram of birchbark twisted into pyramid form and fastened with a split stick."
- "If the match is deemed appropriate, the lover hands over customary gifts, which include dress for battle , an ox for sacrifice, a drinking-cup, and other unspecified expensive gifts."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
drinking-cups (plural)
drinking cup (alternative)