tie-dye

1. 1.

   dye after knotting the fabric to produce an irregular pattern

   “The flower children tie-dye their T-shirts”

   Broaderhand-dye

Questions about tie-dye

What does tie-dye mean?

tie-dye means "dye after knotting the fabric to produce an irregular pattern".

How many syllables are in tie-dye?

tie-dye has 2 syllables and divides as tie--dye 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 tie-dye a common word?

tie-dye 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.