ribspare

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɹɪbspɛə(ɹ)/
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/ˈɹɪbspɛə(ɹ)/ · /ˈɹɪbspɛɚ/

Definition of ribspare

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (rare)Sparerib.
    “Some twenty years ago—'tis true, / Isaacs, a poor pedestrian Jew, / By wishful inclination prest, / A ribspare stole, already drest; […]”
    “25th Decʳ. [1673–1674] I sent to Mr. Hely a ribspare and hoggs puddings, for which hee returned mee a boxe of pills and sermons.”
    “The care of our forefathers for the temporal needs of the ministry, is also illustrated by various votes to be gathered from the Town and Parish Records. […] Sent in since Nov. 3: the day I was married: From my good neighbours in town. […] [January] 8, [1698]. The wife of Saml. Sparhawk, a Ribspare […]”
    “Master Roberts has sent no deare yet. There is sent up a motten (mutton), a barrel of eggs, fower ribspares, two chaynes (chines), a goose, three drest poultrie, four live poultrie, four hogges cheekes and feet and hames (hams) of two hogges mustered, one bottel of meade, three brace of partridges, and a brace of veasants (pheasants) […]”
    “So, in Kent, to wrong-take a person is to take him wrong, to misunderstand him, and a ribspare is a spare rib.”

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Etymology

From Low German ribbesper, from Middle Low German ribbespêr (“spareribs”), from ribbe (“rib”) + sper (“spear; spit”), from Old Saxon ribbi + sper, from Proto-Germanic *ribją + *speru. The second element of the English word was probably influenced by English spare (“lean, wanting flesh”).

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