GOBBO

  

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GOBBO

Date "GOBBO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

"GOBBO" is a common misspelling or typo for: Gobi.


Specialty Definition: GOBBO

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Literature

Gobbo (Launcelot). A clown in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: GOBBO

Specialty definitions using "GOBBO": Save the Mark. (references)
Non-English Usage: "GOBBO" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (crookbacked, gibbous, hump, humpback, humpbacked, hunchbacked).

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Modern Usage: GOBBO

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Movie/TV Titles

Colpo gobbo all'italiana (1962)

Il Gobbo (1960)

La Banda del gobbo (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: GOBBO

The following table summarizes the usage of "GOBBO" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GobboLast name10084,525
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GOBBO

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

al gobbo hotel

3

gobbo

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GOBBO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-g-o-o"

-1 letter: boob, gobo.

-2 letters: bob, bog, boo, gob, goo.

-3 letters: bo, go.

 Words containing the letters "b-b-g-o-o"
 

+2 letters: boobing, bugaboo.

 

+3 letters: bugaboos, lobbygow.

 

+4 letters: hobgoblin, lobbygows, obbligato.

 

+5 letters: beblooding, bibliology, borborygmi, hobgoblins, hobnobbing, obbligatos.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GOBBO


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 4F 42 42 4F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01001111 01000010 01000010 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#79 &#66 &#66 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 004F 0042 0042 004F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4149363649

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Names: Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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