pourboire

Other forms of pourboire

plural

pourboires·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pourboire

What does pourboire mean?

pourboire means "a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)".

How many syllables are in pourboire?

pourboire has 2 syllables and divides as pour-boire 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 pourboire?

Close synonyms include gratuity, tip, baksheesh, bakshish, bakshis. 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 pourboire a common word?

pourboire 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.