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Definition: COBBY |
COBBYNoun1. Stout; hearty; lively. 2. Headstrong; obstinate. |
Note: Cobby \Cob"by\, adjective. [From Cob, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
| "COBBY" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "COBBY" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
anita cobby | 13 |
cobby cuddlers | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COBBY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i shkurtër nga shtati. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | набит (solid, stout, thickset), нискостъблен (scrubby). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obbycay de ou relativo a carvão. (various references) низкорослый (scrubby, stunted, undersized). (various references) de altura baja. (various references) satt (sat, stocky), kort och kraftig. (various references) упертий (asinine, bullheaded, churlish, contumacious, cross-grained, difficile, disobedient, dogged, hard-nosed, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, patient, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, rebellious, reluctant, restive, rowdy, self-opinionated, set, stiff necked, strong-willed, stubborn, wilful, willful), свавільний (arbitrary, hard-mouthed, headstrong, high handed, notionate, opinionated, opinioned, ramstam, self willed, wayward, wilful, willful), ркемезний, низькорослий (base, runty, sawn-off, scrubby, stunted). (various references) chắc (certain, certainly, firm, likely, stout, sure, sure-enough), mập (fat, pursy), lùn (dwarf, dwarfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "COBBY" (pronounced 'Cob"by'): Blebby, Bobby, Booby, Busby, Chubby, Crabby, Darby, flabby, Gaby, Gawby, hubby, knobby, Looby, Mabby, Nobby, Oby, Rudesby, scabby, Scobby, scrubby, shabby, shrubby, Slabby, Sneaksby, snobby, squabby, stubby, Suresby, toby, tubby, Webby. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-o-y" | |
-1 letter: cobb. | |
-2 letters: bob, boy, cob, coy, yob. | |
-3 letters: bo, by, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-c-o-y" | |
+2 letters: abbotcy. | |
+3 letters: beachboy, blackboy, bombycid, cobwebby. | |
+4 letters: beachboys, blackbody, blackboys, bombycids, cubbyhole. | |
+5 letters: absorbancy, absorbency, cubbyholes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 42 42 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- -... -... -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01000010 01000010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O B B Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 0042 0042 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3749363659 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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