dooryard
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 8
Definition of dooryard
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Atlantic-Canada, Maine)the yard near the front or back door of a house
“In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash’d palings, / Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, […]”
“"You're soft, Jane," said Miranda once; "you allers was soft, and you allers will be. If 't wa'n't for me keeping you stiffened up, I b'lieve you 'd leak out o' the house into the dooryard."”
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Etymology
From door + yard.
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