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DROPSIES

Definition: DROPSIES

DROPSIES

Plural

1. Of Dropsy

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DROPSIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

"DROPSIES" is a common misspelling or typo for: dropsied, dropsy.


Crosswords: DROPSIES

Etymologies containing "DROPSIES": Dropsy. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DROPSIES

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

dropsies

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DROPSIES

Language Translations for "DROPSIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Wassersüchte. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

opsiesdray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DROPSIES

Derivations

Words ending with "DROPSIES": hydropsies. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DROPSIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: disposer.

Words within the letters "d-e-i-o-p-r-s-s"

-1 letter: dispose, dossier, periods, poisers, prissed, prossie, spiders.

-2 letters: dipsos, dopers, dopier, dories, dosers, dosser, osiers, pedros, period, pissed, pisser, poised, poiser, poises, posers, posies, prides, prised, prises, prosed, proses, redips, resids, resods, seisor, speirs, spider, spiers, spired, spires, spodes, spored, spores.

-3 letters: dipso, doers, doper, dopes, dorps, doser, doses, dress, dries, drips, drops.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-o-p-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: diaspores, disposers, disposure, disproves, presidios, prosodies, redispose, spheroids, topsiders.

 

+2 letters: depositors, depression, despoilers, dispersion, dispersoid, disposures, dripstones, hydropsies, predispose, redeposits, redisposed, redisposes, rhapsodies, sporicides, subperiods.

 

+3 letters: caryopsides, depressions, descriptors, desorptions, diaphorases, diaphoreses, diaphoresis, disapproves, dispersions, dispersoids, dystrophies, editorships, jeopardises, peroxidases, predisposed, predisposes, prednisones, priesthoods, proboscides, pyranosides, redisposing, rhapsodizes, scorpaenids, soldiership, spiderworts, superoxides, topdressing.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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