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Definition: Aye-aye |
Aye-ayeNoun1. Nocturnal lemur with long bony fingers and rodent-like incisor teeth closely related to the lemurs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aye-aye" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Note: Aye-aye \Aye"-aye`\, noun. [From the native name, probably from its cry.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: Aye-ayeSynonym: Daubentonia madagascariensis (n). (additional references) |
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Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Order Primates Family Daubentoniidae |
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aye-aye."
Crosswords: Aye-aye |
| English words defined with "aye-aye": Daubentoniidae ♦ family Daubentoniidae. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Aye-aye, sir. (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) | |
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| "Aye-aye" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aye-aye" is used about 5 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 |
| Interjection | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-y-y" | |
-3 letters: aye, eye, yay, yea. | |
-4 letters: aa, ae, ay, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-y-y" | |
+2 letters: yeasayer. | |
+3 letters: yeasayers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 79 65 2D 61 79 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01111001 01100101 00101101 01100001 01111001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A y e - a y e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0079 0065 002D 0061 0079 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35917115679171 |
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