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tear-throats

tear-throats is the plural of tear-throat.

Meaning of tear-throat

Noun

tear-throat (plural tear-throats)

  1. (obsolete) A blustering, boisterous person.
    • The majestical king of fishes, heroical most magnificent Herring, armed with white and red, keeps his court in all this hurly-burly, not like a tyrannical tear-throat in open arms, but like wise Diogenes in a barrel[…]1630, John Taylor, Jack a Lent; republished in Works of John Taylor, the Water-Poet, London: Reeves and Turner, 1876, page 15
  2. (obsolete) An overactor.

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Questions about tear-throats

What is tear-throats the plural of?
Tear-throats is the plural of tear-throat.

Words near tear-throats in the dictionary

  1. tear-off
  2. tear-offs
  3. tear-pit
  4. tear-stained
  5. tear-throat
  6. tear-throats
  7. tear-up
  8. tear-ups
  9. tearable
  10. tearably
  11. tearabout

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