buskin

Questions about buskin

What does buskin mean?

buskin means "a boot reaching halfway up to the knee".

How many syllables are in buskin?

buskin has 2 syllables and divides as bu-skin under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for buskin?

Close synonyms include combat boot, desert boot, half boot, top boot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buskin a common word?

buskin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.