yarn-spinning

1. 1.

   inclined to tell long and involved stories (often of incredible happenings)

   Similarcommunicative

Questions about yarn-spinning

What does yarn-spinning mean?

yarn-spinning means "inclined to tell long and involved stories (often of incredible happenings)".

How many syllables are in yarn-spinning?

yarn-spinning has 3 syllables and divides as yarn--spin-ning 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 yarn-spinning a common word?

yarn-spinning 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.