mountain dew
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In 1985 a Mountain Dew commercial started popping up on TV ...."
- "It has become a signature of the Koffee Kup, as much as the flower boxes filled with geraniums and the classic Mountain Dew sign hanging off the front of the building"
- "The thing is, Rob Harris did die, he died shooting a Mountain Dew ad"
- "[…] and a big-bellied bottle of old whiskey — for there is nothing like mountain-dew taken internally for resisting the effects of night mists."
- "At last, says he, "Pray, sir, did you ivir dhrink any potyeen? any raal mountain-jew?" - "No," says Coo; "what's that, and where does it come from?" - "Oh! that's a sacret," said Jack, "but it's the right stuff; nivir believe me agin if it isn't fifty times better nor brandy or rum either. Biddy's brother jist sint me a prisent of a little dhrop, in exchange for some brandy, and as you're an ould frind o' the family, I kep it to thrate you wid.""
- "c. 1870s, George Etell Sargent, The Story of a City Arab, Religious Tract Society, page 387. How they were employed was manifest from the strong perfume of tobacco and mountain dew (illicit whisky) which, striking upon me as I entered, almost overpowered my senses, […]"
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
Mountain Dews (plural)
Mtn Dew (alternative)