filbert
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- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of filbert
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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The hazelnut.
“I'll bring thee / To clust'ring filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee / Young scamels from the rock.”
“I've seen one monkey force open the jaws of his brother, resolutely introduce his fingers, pluck from the sanctuary of his cheek the filbert he had just stowed there for his private nutrition and delight, and crunch and eat it with a stern ecstasy of selfishness, himself […]”
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noun
-
The hazelnut.
“I'll bring thee / To clust'ring filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee / Young scamels from the rock.”
“I've seen one monkey force open the jaws of his brother, resolutely introduce his fingers, pluck from the sanctuary of his cheek the filbert he had just stowed there for his private nutrition and delight, and crunch and eat it with a stern ecstasy of selfishness, himself […]”
- The hazel tree.
- A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head.
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Earlier filbert-nut, Philibert-nut, from Middle English filbert-note, from Anglo-Norman noix de filbert, so named because they are ripe near Saint Philibert’s Day.
Words you can make from filbert
99 playable · top: BEFIT (10 pts)
Best play befit 10 points6-letter words
4 words5-letter words
20 words4-letter words
34 words- FELT 7 pts
- FILE 7 pts
- FIRE 7 pts
- FLIR 7 pts
- FLIT 7 pts
- FRET 7 pts
- FRIT 7 pts
- LEFT 7 pts
- LIEF 7 pts
- LIFE 7 pts
- LIFT 7 pts
- REFT 7 pts
- REIF 7 pts
- RIFE 7 pts
- RIFT 7 pts
- TREF 7 pts
- BELT 6 pts
- BIER 6 pts
- BILE 6 pts
- BIRL 6 pts
- BITE 6 pts
- BLET 6 pts
- BRIE 6 pts
- BRIT 6 pts
- LIER 4 pts
- LIRE 4 pts
- LITE 4 pts
- RIEL 4 pts
- RILE 4 pts
- RITE 4 pts
- TIER 4 pts
- TILE 4 pts
- TIRE 4 pts
- TIRL 4 pts
3-letter words
27 words2-letter words
13 wordsHooks
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