Speakur

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took up the cudgels

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English

Syllables
took up the cud-gels
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past of take up the cudgels

Questions

What does took up the cudgels mean?
simple past of take up the cudgels

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