teague
/tˈiɡ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A male given name from Irish.
name
A city in Freestone County, Texas, United States.
Example Sentences
- "Let not poor Teg and Shone / Vender from der houses, / Lest dey be quite undone / In der very Trouses"
- "With Shinkin-ap-Morgan, with Blue-cap, or Teague, / We into no Covenant enter, nor League."
- "He is not so nice as his Superiors, whom nothing will go down with, under right Nantz or Rum; he shall gulp ye down the rankest Stinkibus with as good a Gusto, as a Teague does Usquenaugh, and not be a Doit the worse for it."
- "Sempronious, in the second act, comes back once more in the same morning to the governor's hall, to carry on the conspiracy with Syphax against the governor, his country, and his family; which is so stupid, that it is below the wisdom of the O—'s, the Mac's, and the Teague's; even Eustace Cummins himself would never have gone to Justice-hall to have conspired against the government."
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