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fewscore

fewscore determiner: a few score: on the order of a small multiple of twenty.

Determiner

fewscore

  1. (rare) A few score: on the order of a small multiple of twenty.
    • Cathedral close, lawn green as a race-horse run,
      Along the foot of the buttresses,
      A fewscore unregulated graves.1967, Denis Devlin, Brian Coffey, The Heavenly Foreigner, page 19

Origin of fewscore

From few + score.

Questions about fewscore

What does fewscore mean?
Fewscore means a few score: on the order of a small multiple of twenty.
What part of speech is fewscore?
Fewscore is a determiner.

Words near fewscore in the dictionary

  1. fewmets
  2. fewness
  3. fewnesses
  4. fewnomial
  5. fewnomials
  6. fewscore
  7. fewsome
  8. fewte
  9. fewter
  10. fewtered
  11. fewterer

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