Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shut-up

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English

Syllables: shut-up
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Misspelling of shut up.

adj

Alternative spelling of shut up.

Example Sentences

"3 Shades of Gray: Cerberus Versus Pandora. Kristie Lynn Higgins. I want them to shut-up and lisen to me."
"2015. OK2BG. Jack Dunsmooor. ... and then Mike volley back with an F-bomb and a fortified attitude, "'... and just shut-up', and then I returned fire with, 'no, you shut-up!', to which he replied, 'you shut-up' so belligerently that he lost his finger-hold and nearly fell off the wall he was balanced upon."
"2014. Bahram's Shorts. Barry Ghabaei. ... and I can take a hint when people don't want me to talk. So I shut-up."
"1880. An Earnest Trifler. Mary Aplin Sprague. Pg. 166. Beaudeck is a very shut-up place."

Inflected Forms

shuts-up (present, singular) shutting-up (participle, present) more shut-up (comparative) most shut-up (superlative)

Questions

What does shut-up mean?: Misspelling of shut up.

How to pronounce shut-up

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