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Definition: MERKIN |
MERKINNoun1. Originally, a wig; afterwards, a mop for cleaning cannon. |
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Slang in 1811 | MERKIN. Counterfeit hair for women's privy parts. See BAILEY'S DICT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Most men don't find them particularly stimulating.
More serious efforts at building sex machines that are stimulating to men have been made, with considerably greater attention to texture, response to pressure, motion, and temperature. Some have been successful. Most are one-of-a-kind quasi-artistic efforts.
See also dildo
Merkin is also a slang term for an American.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Merkin."
Crosswords: MERKIN |
| Specialty definitions using "MERKIN": Anon-rightes ♦ MERKIN. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | You know I'm the type that be crushin and merkin (Oops (Oh My); performing artist: Tweet) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969) | |
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| "MERKIN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "MERKIN" is used about 6 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | 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 |
merkin | 96 |
dr merkin | 39 |
dr gabe merkin | 11 |
lauren merkin | 8 |
merkin michele | 6 |
concert hall merkin | 6 |
gabe merkin | 5 |
doctor merkin | 4 |
hall merkin | 4 |
merkin wig | 3 |
hieronymous merkin | 3 |
merkin michelle | 2 |
daphne merkin | 2 |
merkin photo | 2 |
richard merkin | 2 |
merkin valdez | 2 |
merkin report | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "MERKIN": smerking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "MERKIN" (pronounced 'Mer"kin'): Brodekin, Bumkin, Bumpkin, Buskin, Catkin, Cuskin, Firkin, Gherkin, Girkin, lambkin, Likin, limpkin, Lordkin, Malkin, Mawkin, Miskin, Morkin, mousekin, Napkin, Perkin, Pipkin, Princekin, Pumpkin, Punkin, Romekin, Rumkin, siskin, Welkin, Wolfkin, Yakin. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-k-m-n-r" | |
-1 letter: inker, miner, minke, reink. | |
-2 letters: emir, keir, kern, kier, kine, kirn, merk, mien, mike, mine, mink, mire, mirk, rein, rime, rink. | |
-3 letters: ern, ink, ire, irk, ken, kin, kir, men, mir, nim, rei, rem, rim, rin. | |
-4 letters: em, en, er, in, me, mi, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-k-m-n-r" | |
+1 letter: kirkmen, kremlin, moniker, ramekin. | |
+2 letters: kremlins, monicker, monikers, ramekins, remaking, smerking. | |
+3 letters: demarking, embarking, kingmaker, marketing, minibiker, misreckon, monickers, monkeries, murkiness, nicknamer, rainmaker, remarking, winemaker. | |
+4 letters: antimarket, antismoker, dominicker, earmarking, kingmakers, marketings, minibikers, ministroke, misreckons, nicknamers, noisemaker, printmaker, rainmakers, winemakers, workingmen. | |
+5 letters: antismokers, computernik, dominickers, dressmaking, embarkation, hormonelike, irksomeness, marlinspike, merrymaking, miniskirted, ministrokes, misreckoned, misstricken, murkinesses, noisemakers, overmilking, oversmoking, papermaking, printmakers, reembarking, remarketing, workmanlike. | |
| 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)4D 45 52 4B 49 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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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)01001101 01000101 01010010 01001011 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M E R K I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0045 0052 004B 0049 004E |
| 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)473952454348 |
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