Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

one-horse

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.75 in modern English

Syllables: one-horse
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Drawn or worked by a single horse.

adj

Having no competitor.

adj

Small, insignificant.

Example Sentences

"He constructed a one-horse plough for me about two years ago, which only weighs 581b., for planting potatoes."
"Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!"
"Come to the wagon business I may have a pole put in front of that one-horse wagon and hitch em both to it."
"Let us have no one-horse candidate for the Presidency. General Grant is the man."
"A Nestor may reappear as an elderly pedagogue, a Circe as the "Madam" of a one-horse brothel."
"The Great Powers never think of us as a one-horse state."

Inflected Forms

more one-horse (comparative) most one-horse (superlative)

Phrases

one-horse lawyer one-horse race one-horse town

Synonyms

jerkwater pokey poky

Questions

What does one-horse mean?: Drawn or worked by a single horse.

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