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Definitions: Barleycorn |
BarleycornNoun1. A grain of barley. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "barleycorn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Barleycorn \Bar"ley*corn`\, noun. [See Corn.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Biographical Satire | BARLEYCORN, John, an eminent citizen of the world. Spent early days in the fields, breweries, and distilleries. Later resided in cellars. John had a red nose. Was a great friend of Bacchus. He was a "wasser," he is an "iser," and he will be a "will be-er." Ambition: The end of temperance societies. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Barleycorn John or Sir John Barleycorn. A personification of malt liquor. The term has been made popular by Robert Burns. "Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn!" Burns: Tam o' Shanter, 105, 106. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: BarleycornSynonym: barley (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail; gin; (intoxicating liquor); coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep; near beer. beer, non-alcoholic beverage. |
Littleness | Animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon; bacteria; infusoria; microzoa; phytozoaria; microbe; grub; tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Barleycorn |
| English words defined with "barleycorn": John Barleycorn. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "barleycorn": KEELEY ♦ SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Battling for Barleycorn (1926) John Barleycorn (1914) | |
Song Titles | John Barleycorn (performing artist: Steeleye Span) John Barleycorn (performing artist: Traffic) | |
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| "Barleycorn" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Barleycorn" is used about 2 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 (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "barleycorn": john barleycorn. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
john barleycorn | 44 |
barleycorn | 17 |
barleycorn new | 5 |
barleycorn john lyrics | 3 |
bacchus barleycorn | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "barleycorn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kokërr elbi. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ечемично зърно. (various references) | |
Greek | κρασοπατέρασ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | árpaszem. (various references) | |
Italian | malto (bruised barley, grist, malt, malts), granello (grain, granule, speck). (various references) | |
Manx | grine oarn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arleycornbay.(various references) | |
Romanian | grãunte de orz. (various references) | |
Russian | ячменное зерно. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zrno ječma. (various references) | |
Spanish | grano de cebada. (various references) | |
Swedish | korngryn. (various references) | |
Turkish | arpa tanesi, arpa (barley). (various references) | |
Ukranian | ячмінне зерно. (various references) | |
Welsh | heidden (grain of barley). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "barleycorn": barleycorns. (additional references) | |
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"Barleycorn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ballycorr. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-n-o-r-r-y" | |
-2 letters: barrenly, carbonyl. | |
-3 letters: balcony, baloney, blarney, bracero, caloyer, caroler, carryon, corneal, errancy, laborer, larceny. | |
-4 letters: barely, barley, barony, barrel, barren, baryon, beacon, bleary, borane, boreal, bracer, brayer, calory, carbon, carboy, carney, carrel, cloner, coaler, corban, corbel, cornea, cornel, corner, corral, crayon, lancer, loaner, nearby, nearly, nobler, oracle, ornery, rancor, rarely, reborn, recoal, reloan, yarner. | |
-5 letters: abler, acerb, acorn, alone, anole, arbor, bacon, baler, banco, barer, barny, baron, barre, barye, beano, belay, berry, beryl, blare, blear, bolar, boner, boney, boral, borer, borne, boyar, boyla, brace, bronc, caber, cable, caner, canoe, carbo, carer, carle, carny, carob, carol, carry, ceorl, claro, clary, clean, clear, clone, coaly, coble, cobra, coney, coral, corby, corer, corny, coyer, crane, crone, crony, crore, cyano, early, ebony, enrol, labor, lacer, lacey, lance, layer, learn, leary, lobar, loner, loran, lorry, lycea, nacre, narco, nerol, noble, nobly, ocean, ocrea, onery, racer, racon, rance, rayon, rebar, recon, relay, renal, reran, roble, royal, yarer, yearn, yerba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-l-n-o-r-r-y" | |
+1 letter: barleycorns. | |
+4 letters: irreconcilably. | |
+5 letters: corynebacterial. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01110010 01101100 01100101 01111001 01100011 01101111 01110010 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a r l e y c o r n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0072 006C 0065 0079 0063 006F 0072 006E |
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