Definitions for whydahs

whydahs whyd·ah

Spelling: [hwid-uh, wid-uh]
IPA: /ˈʰwɪd ə, ˈwɪd ə/

Whydahs is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in whydahs (adhhswy).

Definitions for whydahs

noun

  1. any of several small African finches of the subfamily Viduinae, the males of which have elongated, drooping tail feathers during the breeding season.
  2. any of several African weaverbirds of the genus Euplectes, the males of which have similar long tails.

Origin of whydahs

1775-85; alteration of widow (bird) to make name agree with that of a town in Benin, West Africa, one of its haunts

Examples for whydahs

And the story I have to tell places it at whydah, between the two.

They stood at the door of a house—habitations in whydah are not properly described as huts.

All the Europeans in whydah were there, with the Viceroy himself, and the head fetich man.

In whydah and other coast towns are many mulattos, speaking Portuguese and bearing high-sounding Portuguese names.

He became the richest trader in whydah, a special favourite with the natives.

England, Portugal and Brazil also had “forts” at whydah—all in a ruinous condition and ungarrisoned.

whydah, 23 m. west of Kotonu, is an old and formerly thickly-populated town.

Residents at whydah do not commonly explore the bush, but he was young and enterprising.

In consequence of the thousands of orange and citron trees which adorn it, whydah is called “the garden of Dahomey.”

It should be noted, however, that their size generally exceeds that of the largest serpents which Dr. Rpin saw at whydah.

Word Value for whydahs
Scrable

19

Words with friends

16

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