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not worth a continental

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English

Syllables
not -worth a -con-ti-nen-tal
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

worthless, lacking in value, especially due to economic inflation.

American usage

Etymology

From the rapid depreciation of Continental currency, an early American money that became worthless towards the end of the American Revolutionary War.

Usage

Synonyms

bastardly blown cacky chaffy cocking crapalicious cruddy cullionly draffish draffy dreckish drecky

Questions

What does not worth a continental mean?
worthless, lacking in value, especially due to economic inflation.
Where does not worth a continental come from?
From the rapid depreciation of Continental currency, an early American money that became worthless towards the end of the American Revolutionary War.

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