PYG

  

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PYG

Specialty Definition: PYG

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Noun. Source: The Eugene Youth Ballet was formerly known as the Performing Youth Group, with PYG as its shortened name. Definition: The Performing Youth Group, now the Eugene Youth Ballet, or any dancer who is a member. Context: A term refering to the Performing Youth Group. No longer in popular use. Social Source: Eugene Youth Ballet Inter-Advanced Dancers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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

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"PYG" is a common misspelling or typo for: peg, pig, pigs, pug, pygmy.


Crosswords: PYG

Non-English Usage: "PYG" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Welsh (bitumen, pitch).

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

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Expression: PYG

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "PYG": pyg-motorway.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PYG

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

pyg

4
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Derivations: PYG

Derivations

Words beginning with "PYG": pygidia, pygidial, pygidium, pygmaean, pygmean, pygmies, pygmoid, pygmy, pygmyish, pygmyism, pygmyisms. (additional references)

Words containing "PYG": callipygian, callipygous, spyglass, spyglasses, steatopygia, steatopygias, steatopygic, steatopygous, uropygia, uropygium, uropygiums. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: PYG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gyp.

 Words containing the letters "g-p-y"
 

+1 letter: gapy, gyps, pogy.

 

+2 letters: gappy, gimpy, gipsy, glyph, goopy, grapy, gripy, gulpy, guppy, gypsy, piggy, pigmy, podgy, pogey, porgy, pudgy, puggy, pygmy.

 

+3 letters: gloppy, glumpy, glyphs, grapey, gripey, grippy, grumpy, gypped, gypper, gypsum, hyping, paying, pigsty, plaguy, plying, pogeys, prying, puggry, spongy, spying, typing.

 

+4 letters: apogamy, apology, copying, epigyny, espying, giddyap, giddyup, glyphic, glyptic, gossipy, grapery, grumphy, gryphon, gunplay, gyplure, gyppers, gypping, gypsied, gypsies, gypster, gypsums, hypogea, hypoing, pageboy, paughty, phlegmy, piggery, pigsney, pitying, plaguey, playing, ploying, podgily, polygon, ponying, praying, preying, prodigy, progeny, pudgily, pygidia, pygmean, pygmies, pygmoid, pyrogen, spangly, spaying, splurgy, spriggy, springy, yapping, yauping, yawping, yelping, yipping.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PYG


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 59 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    -.--.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01011001 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#89 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0059 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

505941

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INDEX

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


  

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