whipper-in

1. 1.

   huntsman's assistant in managing the hounds

   Broaderassistant

Questions about whipper-in

What does whipper-in mean?

whipper-in means "huntsman's assistant in managing the hounds".

How many syllables are in whipper-in?

whipper-in has 3 syllables and divides as whip-pe-r-in 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 whipper-in a common word?

whipper-in 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.