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9 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents
originFrom life + guard, calque of Dutch lijfgarde, where life has the sense of Dutch lijf (“body”) (hence literally “bodyguard”). Compare German Leibgarde (“bodyguard”), Danish livgarde (“bodyguard”), Swedish livgarde (“bodyguard”). Compare also Old English līfweard (“guardian of life”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
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- dirgeful 13
- figured 12
- fudgier 12
- dareful 11
- direful 11
- figural 11
- fragile 11
- gulfier 11
- rageful 11
- refugia 11
- defrag 11