horse-and-buggy

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   relating to the time before automobiles (and other inventions) changed the way people lived in industrialized nations

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Questions about horse-and-buggy

What does horse-and-buggy mean?

horse-and-buggy means "relating to the time before automobiles (and other inventions) changed the way people lived in industrialized nations".

How many syllables are in horse-and-buggy?

horse-and-buggy has 5 syllables: hor-se--and--bug-gy. The stress falls on "and-".

Is horse-and-buggy a common word?

horse-and-buggy 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.