pua
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.42 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of fried sweet cake made of flour and sugar/jaggery popular in Northern India.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
noun
noun
Initialism of Private Use Area (the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use).
Example Sentences
- "Sure, the echoes of PUA raise concerns and I have no doubt Saturday Sarge has its fair share of men just wanting to pick up women for sex (Phil says in the four years he's sarged he's only slept with about 10 – the same amount another sarger says he's slept with in the last six months)."
- "Many also did not know that there is a name for men who often use such cruel tactics in pursuit of women: PUAs, or pickup artists."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Pua, 潘