Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

secondhanded

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sec-ond-hand-ed
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

adj

adj

adj

adv

adv

adv

In second place, repeating another.

Example Sentences

"The clerk studied them. "You could get secondhanded ones for half price," he told Aunt Julina kindly."
"If the article to which the label or brand is to be attached is secondhanded, the brand or label shall consist of the following: "This mattress (or other article of bedding) is secondhanded and has been sterilized.""
""Secondhanded goods has chips," said the cobbler stoutly. "That is why they are secondhanded goods."
"We wore hand-me-downs, hand-me-down again and spruced it up to look good. Didn't look secondhanded or nothing when we finished adding the touch to it."
"You know, they had these secondhanded stores. Dad went to get me a pair of knee pants, but they'd been here too long!"
"There were furniture stores, but so many of the secondhanded stores carried furniture."

Etymology

From second + handed.

Inflected Forms

second-handed (alternative)

Derived Forms

secondhandedly secondhandedness

Questions

What does secondhanded mean?: Secondhand.
Where does secondhanded come from?: From second + handed.

How to pronounce secondhanded

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