spennare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to pluck feathers from (a fowl, etc.)
  2. (figuratively, informal, transitive) to fleece (to strip a lot of money from)

Frequency

44k
Hyphenated as
spen‧nà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/spenˈna.re/
Etymology

From s- + penna (“feather”) + -are.

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