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| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Dutch (dombo). (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dumbo."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DUMBO | English | Down Underneath Manhattan Bridge Overpass | Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: DUMBO |
| Specialty definitions using "DUMBO": Hurlo-Thrumbo ♦ sacred. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Kinda jumpy, aren't you, Mr. Valient? it's just Dumbo! (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dumbo (1941) Operation Dumbo Drop (1995) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as, the Dalai Lama of Thibet; the Moogum of M'bwango; the temple of Apes in Ceylon; the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt; the Mufti of Moosh; the hair of the dog that bit Noah, etc. All things are either sacred or profane. The former to ecclesiasts bring gain; The latter to the devil appertain. Dumbo Omohundro |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DUMBO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "DUMBO" is used about 13 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 (singular) | 92.31% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | 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. |
| Language | Translations for "DUMBO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | empoté. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tökfej (addle-pate, blockhead, chucklehead, chump, dolt, doodle, dullard, dummy, lunk, lunkhead, meatball, mooncalf, mooncalves, mutt, muttonhead, mutton-head, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noodle, numb-skull, numskull, pinhead, pudding-head, sap, softy, veg), lüke (fumbler, nut, nutter, sappy), buta ember (bimbo, bubble-headed, dimwit, dummy, galoot, goon, goosey, jake, klutz, loggerhead, lunkhead, meatball, nit, sap, schmo, shmo, twit, yob, yobbo, zombie). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umboday.(various references) | |
Russian | болван (beetle-head, berk, blockhead, blunderhead, boob, booby, chuckle-head, chump, chunk, dolt, doodle, dope, dumbbell, dumbo the flying elephant, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fool, goon, hardhead, jackass, jobbernowl, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loghead, log-head, lubber-head, lump, lunkhead, mutt, mutton head, mutton-head, nerd, numskull, pudding-head). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-m-o-u" | |
-1 letter: doum, dumb, umbo. | |
-2 letters: bod, bud, bum, dom, dub, duo, mob, mod, mud, oud, udo. | |
-3 letters: bo, do, mo, mu, od, om, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-m-o-u" | |
+2 letters: budworm. | |
+3 letters: badmouth, budworms, misbound, misdoubt, moribund, uncombed. | |
+4 letters: badmouths, combusted, dumbfound, homebound, misdoubts, ombudsman, ombudsmen, outbeamed, tamboured, unbosomed. | |
+5 letters: badmouthed, bigmouthed, burdensome, disembogue, dumbfounds, misdoubted, molybdenum, multilobed, outbloomed, outclimbed, outfumbled, stormbound, subkingdom, tumbledown, uncombined. | |
| 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. | |
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