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Date "BOMBA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
"BOMBA" is a common misspelling or typo for: Bomb, Bombard, Bombast, Bombay, Bomber, Bombs. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bomba King Bomba. A nickname given to Ferdinand II., King of Naples, in consequence of his cruel bombardment of Messina in 1848, in which the slaughter and destruction of property was most wanton. Bomba II. was the nickname given to his son Francis II. for bombarding Palermo in 1860. He was also called Bombalino (Little Bomba). Another meaning equally applicable is Vox et praterea nihil, Bomba being the explosion made by puffing out the cheeks, and causing them suddenly to collapse. Liar, break-promise, worthless. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: BOMBA |
| Non-English Usage: "BOMBA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (bomb, cracker, slog), Hungarian (bomb), Italian (bomb, bombshell), Occitan (bomb), Polish (bomb), Portuguese (bomb, boy, cannon, Helen, Henry, horse, Hypodermic needle used for injecting drugs, jee jee, jojee, Jones, joy powder, Mrs.White, nail, needle, peanut butter, point, pump, scag, sharp, shell, smack, spike, white boy, white girl, white lady), Romanian (camber), Serbo-Croatian (bomb, squelcher), Spanish (bomb, bombshell, candle bomb, crackerjack, forcer, pump, thunderbolt), Swedish (bomb, strafe), Turkish (bomb, egg, shell). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bomba u 10 i 10 (1967) Come rubammo la bomba atomica (1967) Bomba Kemal (1966) Zim Bomba (1962) S-a furat o bomba (1961) | |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "BOMBA" 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 |
| Bomba | Last name | 300 | 24,005 |
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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 "BOMBA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Swedish | bomb (bomb, bombshell). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BOMBA": bombard, bombarded, bombardier, bombardiers, bombarding, bombardment, bombardments, bombardon, bombardons, bombards, bombast, bombastic, bombastically, bombasts, bombax, bombazine, bombazines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BOMBA": cabomba. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BOMBA": cabombas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-m-o" | |
-1 letter: ambo, bomb. | |
-2 letters: abo, bam, boa, bob, moa, mob. | |
-3 letters: ab, am, ba, bo, ma, mo, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-m-o" | |
+1 letter: bamboo, bombax. | |
+2 letters: bambino, bamboos, bombard, bombast, bumboat, cabomba. | |
+3 letters: bambinos, bombards, bombasts, bombload, bumboats, cabombas, mailbomb, nabobism. | |
+4 letters: bamboozle, beachcomb, bombarded, bombardon, bombastic, bombazine, bombinate, bombloads, broomball, mailbombs, nabobisms. | |
+5 letters: abominable, abominably, bamboozled, bamboozles, beachcombs, bombardier, bombarding, bombardons, bombazines, bombinated, bombinates, broomballs, combinable, embossable, improbable, improbably, mailbombed. | |
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