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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Colcannon Potatoes and cabbage pounded together and then fried in butter (Irish). "Col" is cole or cale, i.e. cabbage. "About 1774 Isaac Sparks, the Irish comedian, founded in Long Acre a Colcannon Club."- The Athenæum, January 20th, 1875. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | COLCANNON. Potatoes and cabbage pounded together in a mortar, and then stewed with butter: an Irish dish. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
colcannon | 23 |
colcannon recipe | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "COLCANNON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | caayl kionnan. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | olcannoncay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COLCANNON": colcannons. (additional references) | |
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"COLCANNON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calcannon, colcanon, Concanon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-l-n-n-n-o-o" | |
-2 letters: cooncan, noncola. | |
-3 letters: cannon. | |
-4 letters: ancon, canon, cocoa, colon. | |
-5 letters: anon, calo, clan, clon, coal, coca, coco, cola, conn, cool, coon, loan, loca, loco, loon, nolo, nona, noon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-l-n-n-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: colcannons. | |
+2 letters: nonvolcanic. | |
+3 letters: connectional. | |
+4 letters: conjunctional, noncompliance, nonconceptual, nongonococcal. | |
+5 letters: nonaccountable, noncompliances, noncontractual, unconscionable, unconscionably. | |
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