Dictionary Entry
backstair
backstair is a 9-letter English word with 2 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 2 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs.
- 2adjective
secret and sly or sordid- A.L.Guerard
"backstairs gossip"
"his low backstairs cunning"
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