Definitions for wait-a-bit

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Spelling: [weyt-uh-bit]
IPA: /ˈweɪt əˌbɪt/

Wait-A-Bit is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in wait-a-bit (--aabiittw).

Definitions for wait-a-bit

noun

  1. any of various plants bearing thorns or prickly appendages, as the grapple plant or the greenbrier.

Origin of wait-a-bit

1775-85; translation of Afrikaans wag-'n-bietjie Dutch wacht een beetje

Examples for wait-a-bit

His nap had brought a return of appetite; and the wait-a-bit thorns showed the marks of his prehensile trunk.

"wait-a-bit thorns are worse than razors, Miss Gray," he elucidated further.

This kraal was situated in the heart of a vast thicket of “wait-a-bit” thorns.

Here the “wait-a-bit” thorns effectually checked his progress.

I was busy all the afternoon in cutting 'wait-a-bit' thorns for a kraal.

Before recovering himself from a “wait-a-bit” thorn he had been left out of sight behind.

I was busy all the afternoon in cutting ‘wait-a-bit’ thorns for a kraal.

The colonists of South Africa give the name "wait-a-bit" to this bush.

Many a man has been so detained in the Bush, riding inadvertently against the "wait-a-bit" or "lawyer cane."

What do you think of a man who'll wander off a trail, tumble over a ledge, and get mixed up in a bunch of wait-a-bit like that?

Word Value for wait-a-bit
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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