Definitions for eagres

eagres ea·gre

Spelling: [ee-ger, ey-ger]
IPA: /ˈi gər, ˈeɪ gər/

Eagres is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in eagres (aeegrs).

Definitions for eagres

noun

  1. a tidal bore or flood.

Origin of eagres

1640-50; apparently representing earlier agar, ager, obscurely akin to hyger, higre; (compare Anglo-Latin (12th century) higra the tidal bore of the Severn); compared with Old English ēgor, e

Examples for eagres

eagre is the old English word for vinegar, which is just “wine-eagre.”

The other name by which the phenomenon is known, “eagre,” is also of unknown origin.

The tide of fashion was rushing like an eagre "up to the Park."

Dryden, who had noticed it in the river Trent, calls it the "eagre."

Word Value for eagres
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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