Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

highland fling

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English

Syllables: high-land fling
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A solo dance of the Scottish Highlands.

Example Sentences

"When Dandy Dinmont, after executing two or three caprioles, and cutting the Highland-fling, by way of ridicule of his wife's anxiety, at last deigned to sit down, and commit his round, black, shaggy bullet of a head to her inspection."
"She had never danced a step in her life, but that experienced girl capering with circus grace in the Highland fling would, she knew, be as nothing to her given such inspiriting music."
"The artichokes bounded up and down On top of the pumpkins' heads, And the cabbage was dancing the highland fling All over the onion beds."

Inflected Forms

Highland flings (plural)

Questions

What does highland fling mean?: A solo dance of the Scottish Highlands.

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