Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heathcropper

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: heathcrop-per
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A farm animal, particularly a wild pony, kept to graze on the heath, particularly associated with Wessex.

Archaic; Slang

Example Sentences

"Would fly about our bedrooms. Heathcroppers / Lived on the hills, and were our only friends: /"

Etymology

From heath + cropper.

Usage

Inflected Forms

heathcroppers (plural)

Questions

What does heathcropper mean?: A farm animal, particularly a wild pony, kept to graze on the heath, particularly associated with Wessex.
Where does heathcropper come from?: From heath + cropper.

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