Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tappit hen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tap-pit hen
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bottle of wine in the port wine trade containing 2.25 liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle.

noun

A hen with a tuft of feathers on her head.

Example Sentences

"Blyth , blyth , blyth was she, Blyth was she but and ben; And well the loo'd a Hawick gill, And leugh to see a tappit hen"

Etymology

Borrowed and modified from Scots tappit-hen.

Inflected Forms

tappit hens (plural)

Synonyms

Marie Jeanne tregnum

Questions

What does tappit hen mean?: A bottle of wine in the port wine trade containing 2.25 liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle.
Where does tappit hen come from?: Borrowed and modified from Scots tappit-hen.

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