stubbie
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small beer bottle with a distinctive squat shape; a stubby.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage
Example Sentences
- "2006, Tom Conyers, Morse Code for Cats, 2008, Zeus Publications, Australia, page 59, Joe drank his lone stubbie of light beer like it was poison – which isn′t far wrong."
- "Every time you throw your Coke can or your stubbie, or leave your McDonald′s wrapper on the beach, you spoil our beautiful pristine coastline."
- "The communal area is constantly cruisey, whether you′re slung low in a hammock or sipping your BYO stubbie in the cool, cushioned area with a frayed map in hand."
- "In PNG we would buy beer wholesale at around 10 cents per stubbie or can, and sell it to ourselves at 20 cents per stubbie or can."
Etymology
From stub + -ie.