Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unstopper

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-stop-per
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To remove the stopper from.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"He unstoppered the little flask and took a few swigs."
"In vials of ivory and coloured glass / Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes, / Unguent, powdered, or liquid— […]"
"That night the whisky was unstoppered and Bradly lolled in bed, smoking, and betimes sweeping out an arm of conquest for his nobbler and taking a lordly pull at it."

Etymology

From un- + stopper.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

unstoppers (present, singular) unstoppering (participle, present) unstoppered (participle, past) unstoppered (past)

Questions

What does unstopper mean?: To remove the stopper from.
Where does unstopper come from?: From un- + stopper.

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