tarred-and-feathered

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   smeared with tar and covered with feathers as a punishment

   “the poor tarred-and-feathered wretch”

   Similarpunished

Questions about tarred-and-feathered

What does tarred-and-feathered mean?

tarred-and-feathered means "smeared with tar and covered with feathers as a punishment".

How many syllables are in tarred-and-feathered?

tarred-and-feathered has 6 syllables: tar-re-d-and--fea-the-red. The stress falls on "fea".

Is tarred-and-feathered a common word?

tarred-and-feathered 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.