Definitions for pawnbroker

pawnbroker pawn·bro·ker

Spelling: [pawn-broh-ker]
IPA: /ˈpɔnˌbroʊ kər/

Pawnbroker is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 465 anagrams from letters in pawnbroker (abeknoprrw).

Definitions for pawnbroker

noun

  1. a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.

Origin of pawnbroker

First recorded in 1680-90; pawn1 + broker

Examples for pawnbroker

Afterwards he vanished, as I say, and became a pawnbroker in Gwynne Street.

I come hup jest when the perleeceman and the pawnbroker were a-gripping yer.

He bought a secondhand watch at a pawnbroker's, but disdained a chain.

I esteem a pawnbroker in the place of an uncle: that is, in loco.

Bart overheard him talking of Stowley and the pawnbroker there.

"Yes, they caught him in a pawnbroker's shop," said Mr. Basswood.

He had insulted the name of the Father, and Pincher, the pawnbroker, had knocked him down.

On turning the corner, Judy had discovered a pawnbroker's shop.

A young soldier (it was Charlie Wilkes) came upon Pincher the pawnbroker.

His brother, the pawnbroker, was there and had something to say to the Father.

Word Value for pawnbroker
Scrable

21

Words with friends

24

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