kerbstone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

British usage

"You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party."
"Gabriel often saw him on the streets, playing on the curbstone with other boys his age."

From kerb + stone.

kerbstones (plural) curbstone (alternative, US)

kerbstoned

curbstone

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