Definitions for lungers

lungers lung·er

Spelling: [luhng-er]
IPA: /ˈlʌŋ ər/

Lungers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in lungers (eglnrsu).

Definitions for lungers

noun

  1. a person who has chronic lung disease, especially tuberculosis.
  2. a person or thing that lunges.

Origin of lungers

First recorded in 1890-95; lung + -er1

Examples for lungers

"You don't look like a lunger," said Barrows, eying her critically.

He suppressed a little hacking cough that told its own story; he was a “lunger.”

The kid's a lunger, an' the first thing to do is to git him started in to feelin' like a man.

Ma'am, I'm sorry for you, but I wouldn't really have picked you out for a lunger.

The lunger in turn tries to make the hopper put down his second foot or unfold arms.

The mesa just like a big green table spread under the sky—what is it that lunger poet said—‘under the wide and starry sky’?

lunger and Company sank a shaft on the Mountain Key to a depth of 90 feet and found very rich ore.

It's a lunger bound for the lakes, and some one gave him a twist as to the track an' we caught 'im.

In the afternoons I'm goin' to keep him out in the air—that's all a lunger needs—plenty air, an' good grub.

Word Value for lungers
Scrable

7

Words with friends

11

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