house-plunder
/ˈhaʊsˌplʌndɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.10 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Each girl got a cow, a mare and sufficient "house[-]plunder" with which to set up house-keeping, but they rarely got any land, the husband being expected to provide that."
- "Why, she married that oldest boy of little Ike's, a moughty well-turned, civil, workin' boy, an' his folks give 'im a heifer an' some house[-]plunder, an' her mam give 'em a bed an' a nice lot uv quilts, an' they've set up fer theirselves."
- "So Jack got all them things from the giant and gathered up all the house-plunder that wasn't tore up when the house hit the ground."
- "Fin'lly the old sow she fixed Jack three days' rations and a little house-plunder on a drag-sled and he headed for the wilderness."
- "Knowing how much Grandma wanted a lumber house, Grandpa cut down the buck-tree and ripsawed it into boards. He put up a fine board house, and they moved all their house-plunder in."
- "The last feller that lived thar tuck off so fast he left his beds an' house[-]plunder thar."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhaʊsˌplʌndɚ/
- British English: /ˈhaʊsˌplʌndə/