jodhpurs
/ˈd͡ʒɑdpɚz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""What's the big idea?" Dorothy sprang in beside him, looking very trim and boyish in jodhpurs and dark flannel shirt over which she wore a thin brown sweater."
- "The man in jodphurs muttered, ‘Is why black people can't get on. You see how these waiters behaving? And they black like hell too, you know.’"
- "JILL [mischievously]: Ladies and gentlemen aren't naked? / ALAN: That's right! Never! ... Never! That would be disgusting! She'd have to put bowler hats on them! ... Jodhpurs!"
- "All the portraits that hang on the walls of the living room are, I realize, of my mother's family: miniatures of her great-aunts in Victorian bustles and elaborate feathered hats; a gilt-framed oil of her great-great-great-uncle as a boy in pastoral England, wearing a gold riding coat over white jodhpurs and sitting astride a white steed, a King Charles spaniel yapping at them from the foreground of the canvas."
- "Soon Bowie entered, wearing three-tone NASA jodhpurs."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈd͡ʒɑdpɚz/
- British English: /ˈd͡ʒɒdpəz/