spow
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
/spaʊ/
Definition of spow
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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An imaginary action resembling the headcarrying of a teapot, used in the Wug Test to investigate the acquisition of the past participle form in English-speaking children.
“this is a man who knows how to spow”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Pseudoword, coined ex nihilo by American psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason in the 1950s as a word that children taking the test would not have heard before. Probably influenced by spout
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