Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hedgeborn

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hedge-born
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Born under a hedge or of low birth.

Obsolete

adj

growing in a hedge

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swine"
"The trader's child, whose soaring spirit rose As hedge-born aloe-flowers that rarest years disclose"

Etymology

From hedge + born.

Usage

Obsolete

Questions

What does hedgeborn mean?: Born under a hedge or of low birth.
Where does hedgeborn come from?: From hedge + born.

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