Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

surfeiter

/ˈsɝːfɪtɚ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sur-feit-er
IPA: /ˈsɝːfɪtɚ/

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who surfeits or overeats.

Example Sentences

"[…] I did not thinke / This amorous Surfetter would haue donn’d his Helme / For such a petty Warre:"
"Surfetters, and Cormorants he compared to beasts voyd of reason."
"1954, uncredited translator, Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Chapter 10, p. 148, […] the spontaneous reaction against the crying social inequalities, against the contrast between rich and poor, the feudal lords and their serfs, the surfeiters and the starving;"

Etymology

From surfeit + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: surfeit

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈsɝːfɪtɚ/
British English: /ˈsɜːfɪtə/

Inflected Forms

surfeiters (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce surfeiter?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɝːfɪtɚ/.
What does surfeiter mean?: A person who surfeits or overeats.
Where does surfeiter come from?: From surfeit + -er.

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