rain-in-the-face

1. 1.

   a chief of the Sioux; he was with Sitting Bull and others at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when General Custer's troops were massacred (1835-1905)

   BroaderIndian chiefSioux

Questions about rain-in-the-face

What does rain-in-the-face mean?

rain-in-the-face means "a chief of the Sioux; he was with Sitting Bull and others at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when General Custer's troops were massacred (1835-1905)".

How many syllables are in rain-in-the-face?

rain-in-the-face has 4 syllables and divides as rai-n-in--the--face 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 rain-in-the-face a common word?

rain-in-the-face 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.