horse-and-buggy

1. 1.

   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 and divides as hor-se--and--bug-gy 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.

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.