vocable
/ˈvəʊkəb(ə)l/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈvəʊkəb(ə)l/
vocable
- Syllables
- 3 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
vo - cab - le -> vocable
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘She crept downstairs, her feet sticking to the hardwood floors, through the kitchen with its sink stacked high with unwashed dishes, and down the hall.’
- ‘Irritation at coming home and finding unwashed dishes in the sink after spending three hours cleaning the kitchen yesterday.’
- ‘Picking up an unwashed dish at random, it puzzled him to see that bacteria had failed to colonise around a mysterious mould which had coincidentally appeared.’
- ‘They're usually passed from person to person on unwashed hands and surfaces contaminated by feces.’
- ‘I could get into the Pavilion, or The Flea Pit as we called it, for the price of two jam jars, washed or unwashed.’
- ‘Tyler came bearing a tray of bootleg whiskey and gin and poured them drinks in squat glass tumblers stained with unwashed fingerprints.’
- ‘The house is in disarray, piles of unwashed dishes and unpaid bills are strewn across the dining room table.’
- ‘Drawing nearer we peeped with fascinated horror through the grimy, unwashed windows at the interior still life.’
- ‘The bacteria that causes toxic shock syndrome can be carried on unwashed hands and prompt an infection anywhere on the body.’
- ‘They should be stored in the refrigerator, unwashed, but thoroughly washed before consuming.’
- ‘In my unwashed condition, I would only make them filthy again.’
- ‘At your campsite, never leave dirty dishes unwashed, lying unprotected.’
- ‘At 2, 900 yen per night or about €27, it is as cheap as a hostel yet unlike most European hostels, it isn't over-run by unwashed backpackers.’
- ‘I had a bit of a duty call to go and watch a friend in a play, and not just any old tatty fringe show with no set and stinky unwashed costumes, but a proper posh play at the proper posh Edinburgh International Festival.’
- ‘Therefore, attached to stem B was one washed line and one unwashed line.’
- ‘Four heads of unwashed hair (but it cleans itself after a few years!) and a week's worth of unwashed dishes.’
- ‘His clothing was in rags and he was unwashed, hair stained and matted, traces of spittle dried upon his chin and chest.’
- ‘A trick for eggs was to take them fresh and unwashed from under the hen, smear them with Vaseline, and store them in the bilge.’
- ‘Nearly all wounds became infected, the infection often being transmitted by the surgeons' unwashed hands and instruments.’
- ‘Washed potatoes often will green more readily than unwashed potatoes.’
Synonyms
dirty, grubby, grimy, sordid, squalid, average, base, baseborn, canaille, cast down, common, commonplace, declassed, docile, dutiful, everyday, gentle, humble, ignoble, low, lowborn, lowly, mean, meek, menial, mild, modest, mundane, obscure, obsequious, ordinary, plebeian, poor, proletarian, prosaic, retiring, reverential, scum, scum of the earth, servile, simple, submissive, subordinate, unassuming, unpretentious, vulgar, withdrawing
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