Definitions for burgee

burgee bur·gee

Spelling: [bur-jee, bur-jee]
IPA: /ˈbɜr dʒi, bɜrˈdʒi/

Burgee is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in burgee (beegru).

Definitions for burgee

noun

  1. a triangular flag or one having a shallow, angular indentation in the fly, forming two tails, used as an identification flag, especially by yachts.

Origin of burgee

1840-50; perhaps shortening of *burgee's flag, by reanalysis of *burgess flag, burgess translating French bourgeois in sense “owner” (of a ship)

Examples for burgee

The burgee of the other Club we have named has undergone many changes.

At the bow flew a burgee or small swallow-tailed flag of blue upon which was the word Deerfoot in gold.

He knows that we are an English yacht, for there are our ensign and burgee to bear witness to the fact.

"You don't have to hold him," called Captain burgee, dismounting from Loopy the mate.

That is yachting fashion, you know, Master Horace, to run the burgee up when the owner comes on board.

The modern flag, known as the burgee, largely used in flag signalling, is like a shortened pennon.

That makes us pirates, and that old Maggie burgee floatin' at the fore ain't nothin' more nor less than the Jolly Roger.

This should really be burgee, but then it wouldn't rhyme, and a Poet may drop a syllable, if he or she mayn't drop an H!

And the burgee––the letters on the burgee––my cousin Alice worked them.

The Royal Yacht Club burgee at this period was plain white, without any device whatever.

Word Value for burgee
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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