Definitions for NEWT

NEWT newt

Spelling: [noot, nyoot]
IPA: /nut, nyut/

Newt is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in NEWT (entw).

Definitions for NEWT

noun

  1. any of several brilliantly colored salamanders of the family Salamandridae, especially those of the genera Triturus and Notophthalmus, of North America, Europe, and northern Asia.
  2. any of various other small salamanders.

Origin of NEWT

1375-1425; late Middle English newte, for ewte (the phrase an ewte being taken as a newte; cf. nickname), variant of evet, Old English efete e

Examples for NEWT

This was done masterfully by newt Gingrich in the debate before the South Carolina primary.

He tried to pass healthcare reform but newt Gingrich and the GOP-controlled House and Senate shot it down.

My CNN colleague newt Gingrich was Republican Speaker of the House when the Defense of Marriage Act was signed into law.

Of course every living speck, amoeba or newt, has its own individual soul.

The new jaw, or leg, is a newt's, and never by any accident more like that of a frog.

This is more exciting than the newt Gingrich congressional triumph of 1994.

I'd like to know what newt Copley thinks of the Barville nine.

He seized newt Elkey by the arm and said, "What does she do?"

As you might guess, newt is decidedly one of the people to which these agencies cater.

I never heard of any; but I wanted a newt, and so I proposed that we should fish here.

Word Value for NEWT
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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