tave
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
Definition of tave
9 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (intransitive)To sprawl with the arms and legs; kick or fidget with the feet.
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verb
- (intransitive)To sprawl with the arms and legs; kick or fidget with the feet.
- (intransitive)To toss or tumble oneself about; act violently, rage, throw a fit.
- (intransitive)To struggle, toil, strive, labour.
- (intransitive)To trudge, walk heavily.
- (ambitransitive)To wrestle.
- (dialectal, intransitive)To hurry along; gad about.
- (dialectal, transitive)To distress, overtire.
noun
- (dialectal)A difficulty, struggle.
- (dialectal)A hurry, stir, commotion.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English taven, from Old Norse *tafa, from Proto-Germanic *tabōn (“to grope, feel”). Cognate with Faroese tava (“to endeavour, exert oneself”), Norwegian Nynorsk tava (“to toil in vain”), German zabeln (“to move convulsively, sprawl, flounder”).
Words you can make from tave
14 playable · top: AVE (6 pts)
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