shant
/ʃˈɑnt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.63 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If yez is smart yer will take out enough for a shant and some fun, enough to buy yer missus or yer tart a new dress, enough to put shoes on yer sister's weans, even, but leave the rest under yer feet for the next day, an' the day arter that."
- "Welcoming Captain St Claire, Prince Rupert ordered him a shant of dark porter and called upon him to speak of his travels."
- "Well, if you're willing to sub me a shant of bivvy, then I'll tell ya"
- "Why, I wouldn't swap this old wrack of a shant , ez I've called it, with the treasures it contains to-day, for al the bloomin'est bloomed mansions that ever stood on the face of the earth."
- "I clapped Ehren on the shoulder and went away to stare broodingly upon that cramph of a shant."
- "I'd rather deliver in the Glossop Grubber than that apology for a shant."