oxygal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Oxygal, (Gr.) is sowre Milk."
- "Make oxygal, or sour Milk, after this manner: Take a new pot, and bore a hole in it, hard by the bottom; then with a sprig stop up the hole you have made, and fill the vessel with the freshest ewe-milk, and to it add small bundles of green seasoning herbs, origany, mint, onion, coriander: put these herbs so far down into the milk, that the strings, wherewith they are tied, may appear on the outside."
Etymology
From Latin oxygala, from Ancient Greek ὀξύγαλα (oxúgala).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: oxygala, ὀξύγαλα