BIRCHING

Definition: BIRCHING

BIRCHING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Birch

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Usage Frequency: BIRCHING

"BIRCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "BIRCHING" is used about 8 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	50%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	37.5%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	12.5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BIRCHING

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
birching	94
birching story	7
birching girl	5
birching video	4
birching girl school	4
birching swedish	3
birching punishment	3
bare birching bottom	2
birching picture	2
birching caning	2
birching switch	2
birching century child nineteenth	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BIRCHING

Language		Translations for "BIRCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		prügelstrafe (fustigation), prügeln (baste, beat, blackjack, caning, flog, fustigate, thrash, to cudgel, to fustigate). (various references)

Pig Latin		irchingbay

Portuguese		sova (a good hiding, crushing, drubbing, dustman, grueling, gruelling, lacing, licking, padishah, thrashing, towelling, treading, walloping, warming, whaling), castigo (avengement, castigation, chastisement, discipline, flogging, grueling, gruelling, pain, payment in advance, penalty, punishment, retribution, sanction). (various references)

Turkish		sopalama, dayak (bashing, basting, beating, caning, chastisement, corporal punishment, dressing down, drubbing, dusting, flogging, fustigation, hiding, lacing, licking, prop, rod, rubdown, sock, the works, thrashing, trimming, wallop, whacking, whaling, whipping). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: BIRCHING

Misspellings
	"BIRCHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baracchini, bitchings, burching, irching. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BIRCHING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-g-h-i-i-n-r"
	-2 letters: grinch, hiring, ricing.
	-3 letters: birch, bring, icing, iring, ricin.
	-4 letters: brig, brin, chin, crib, girn, grin, inch, nigh, rich, ring.
	-5 letters: big, bin, chi, cig, ghi, gib, gin, hic, hin, ich, nib, rib, rig, rin.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-g-h-i-i-n-r"
	+3 letters: besmirching, brachiating.
	+4 letters: charbroiling, chemisorbing, childbearing.
	+5 letters: childbearings.
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