Definitions for small-beer

small-beer small beer

Small-Beer is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 420 anagrams from letters in small-beer (-abeellmrs).

Definitions for small-beer

noun

  1. weak beer.
  2. Chiefly British Slang. matters or persons of little or no importance.

Origin of small-beer

First recorded in 1560-70

Examples for small-beer

But it was Christmas Eve and snowing outside—and he took a small beer!

It smells of herrings and small beer, and they get weary of waiting.

Cordoba province, like the other provinces, thinks no small beer of itself.

All this is small beer compared with the supergrass that BCL Burton Copeland may turn out to be.

Like most of our public figures and celebrities, our “most wanted” criminals are small beer.

There was also a pewter mug for each, three-parts filled with small beer.

There is nothing at all left now but biscuit and small beer.

Woman was no longer the captive of the seraglio, nor the chronicler of small beer.

Taffy, sprung of good parents, thinks no small beer of himself.

For a hot dish with small beer or cider, 1s.; for a cold dish, 4d.

Word Value for small-beer
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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