Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

high-water

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: 5.32 in modern English

Syllables: high--wa-ter
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short.

Example Sentences

"Their hair almost bounced, their braces flashed in the fluorescent light, and they had my sisters' permission to make comments about my “high-water” trousers."
"I took these hemmed-up pants with me to college, and by the end of the year they were all high-water jeans because at eighteen I was still growing."
"The day Pappy brought Billy Neely to live with us he didn't own anything but one pair of high-water pants: No shoes, no shirt, no toothbrush, no nothing except for one pair of high-water pants."

Inflected Forms

more high-water (comparative) most high-water (superlative)

Questions

What does high-water mean?: Being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short.

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