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Definition: Duffel |
DuffelNoun1. A large cylindrical bag of heavy cloth; for carrying personal belongings. 2. A coarse heavy woolen fabric. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Duffel \Duf"fel\, noun. [Dutch duffel, from Duffel, a town not far from Antwerp.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | A heavy low-grade fabric, napped on both sides, made from woollen yarn. Generally it is made up for short coats referred to as duffel coats. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The town gives its name to a heavy woollen cloth used to make overcoats, especially for the military. The coat made from this material is now spelt duffle coat.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Duffel."
Synonyms: DuffelSynonyms: duffel bag (n), duffle (n), duffle bag (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: duffield (personal care & hotels, industry). |
Crosswords: Duffel |
| English words defined with "duffel": duffel coat, duffle coat. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Duffel" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (duffel), Swedish (duffel). |
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Movie/TV Titles | 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997) | |
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| "Duffel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.48% of the time. "Duffel" is used about 46 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) | 93.48% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.35% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "duffel" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Duffel | Last name | 400 | 22,319 |
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Expressions using "duffel": Duffel bag ♦ duffel coat. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "duffel": duffel-coat, duffel-coated. | |
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| 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 "duffel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dok i sertë (duffle), sende personale (duds, duffle, goods, paraphernalia, personal effects, personalia), çantë kampimi (duffel bag, duffle), çantë doku (duffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الدفيل نسيج صوفي غليظ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | екип (crew, duffle, equipments, kit, outfit, party, team, turnout), дебел мъхест вълнен плат (duffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vlnìná látka (Cheviot, drugget). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dobbeld barchent (duffle), düffel (duffle), bomuld-dobbelt-lama (duffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | duffel (duffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | molleton (duffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Düffel (duffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καμέλο, σαμαροσκούτι (duffle, flushing), εφόδια κατασκήνωσησ, είδοσ χοντρού, χνουδωτού μάλλινου υφάσματοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | düftin (chamois, duffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | duffel (duffle), tessuto (cloth, coating, duffle, fabric, material, tissue, web, woven). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 雑嚢 (duffel bag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ざつのう (duffel bag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | duffyl. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uffelday tipo de tecido (duffle), siberiana (duffle). (various references) снаряжение (accouterment, accoutrement, equipment, fit out, fit-out, fixing, fixings, kit, munition, outfit, refit, rig, rigging), шерстяная байка (duffle). (various references) grubo sukno. (various references) siberiana (Siberian). (various references) duffel, sportutrustning, campingutrustning. (various references) spor kıyafeti (duffle, work out clothes), kamp giysisi (duffle), kaba yün kumaş (duffle, frieze). (various references) спортивний костюм (duffle), шерстяна байка (duffle). (various references) áo khoát ngắn có mũ liền (duffel coat, duffle coat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "duffel": duffels. (additional references) | |
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"Duffel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: buffel, Daffley, diffen, diffeo, Diffil, dufa, dufe, dufel, Duffa, duffed, Duffey, Duffill, Duffley, D'urfe, D'urfey, Tufeila, Tuffnel, Tuffnell. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "duffel" (pronounced du"ful) |
| 4 | -u" f u l | kerfuffle, muffle, reshuffle, ruffle, scuffle, shuffle, truffle. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, scornful, shameful, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: duffle, luffed. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-f-l-u" | |
-1 letter: flued. | |
-2 letters: delf, duel, duff, feud, fled, flue, fuel, leud, lude, luff. | |
-3 letters: del, due, eff, eld, elf, fed, feu, flu, fud, led, leu. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, ef, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-f-l-u" | |
+1 letter: bluffed, duffels, duffles, fluffed, muffled, ruffled, sluffed. | |
+2 letters: effulged, scuffled, shuffled, snuffled, souffled, truffled. | |
+3 letters: buffaloed, diffusely, fulfilled, mufflered, souffleed, sufflated, unmuffled, unruffled. | |
+4 letters: bufflehead, diffusible, outbluffed, reshuffled. | |
+5 letters: buffleheads, diffusively, faultfinder, footfaulted, insufflated, unfulfilled. | |
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