jodhpurs
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- Scrabble points
- 21
- Words With Friends
- 24
- Letters
- 8
/ˈd͡ʒɒdpəz/
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/ˈd͡ʒɒdpəz/ · /ˈd͡ʒəʊdpəz/ · /ˈd͡ʒɑdpɚz/
Definition of jodhpurs
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(plural, plural-only)Flared riding trousers of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.
“"What's the big idea?" Dorothy sprang in beside him, looking very trim and boyish in jodhpurs and dark flannel shirt over which she wore a thin brown sweater.”
“The man in jodphurs muttered, ‘Is why black people can't get on. You see how these waiters behaving? And they black like hell too, you know.’”
“All the portraits that hang on the walls of the living room are, I realize, of my mother's family: miniatures of her great-aunts in Victorian bustles and elaborate feathered hats; a gilt-framed oil of her great-great-great-uncle as a boy in pastoral England, wearing a gold riding coat over white jodhpurs and sitting astride a white steed, a King Charles spaniel yapping at them from the foreground of the canvas.”
“Soon Bowie entered, wearing three-tone NASA jodhpurs.”
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Etymology
1913 (earlier as jodhpur breeches, 1899), from Jodhpur, former state in northwestern India. The city at the heart of the state was founded 1459 by Rao Jodha, a local ruler, and is named for him.
Words you can make from jodhpurs
114 playable · top: JODHPUR (20 pts)
Best play jodhpur 20 points7-letter words
1 word6-letter words
1 word5-letter words
13 words4-letter words
46 words- JOSH 14 pts
- JUDO 12 pts
- SOJU 11 pts
- HOPS 9 pts
- OUPH 9 pts
- PHOS 9 pts
- POSH 9 pts
- PUSH 9 pts
- SHOP 9 pts
- SOPH 9 pts
- DOHS 8 pts
- DOSH 8 pts
- HODS 8 pts
- SHOD 8 pts
- DORP 7 pts
- DROP 7 pts
- DUPS 7 pts
- HOUR 7 pts
- PODS 7 pts
- PROD 7 pts
- PUDS 7 pts
- RHOS 7 pts
- RHUS 7 pts
- RUSH 7 pts
- SPUD 7 pts
- UPDO 7 pts
- OPUS 6 pts
- POUR 6 pts
- PROS 6 pts
- PURS 6 pts
- ROUP 6 pts
- SOUP 6 pts
- SPUR 6 pts
- URPS 6 pts
- DORS 5 pts
- DOUR 5 pts
- DUOS 5 pts
- DURO 5 pts
- OUDS 5 pts
- RODS 5 pts
- SORD 5 pts
- SURD 5 pts
- UDOS 5 pts
- URDS 5 pts
- OURS 4 pts
- SOUR 4 pts
3-letter words
38 words- JUS 10 pts
- HOP 8 pts
- HUP 8 pts
- PHO 8 pts
- POH 8 pts
- DOH 7 pts
- DUH 7 pts
- HOD 7 pts
- DUP 6 pts
- HOS 6 pts
- OHS 6 pts
- POD 6 pts
- PUD 6 pts
- RHO 6 pts
- SHO 6 pts
- SOH 6 pts
- OPS 5 pts
- POS 5 pts
- PRO 5 pts
- PUR 5 pts
- PUS 5 pts
- SOP 5 pts
- SUP 5 pts
- UPO 5 pts
- UPS 5 pts
- URP 5 pts
- DOR 4 pts
- DOS 4 pts
- DUO 4 pts
- ODS 4 pts
- OUD 4 pts
- ROD 4 pts
- SOD 4 pts
- UDO 4 pts
- URD 4 pts
- ORS 3 pts
- OUR 3 pts
- SOU 3 pts
2-letter words
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