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Definition: Bowdler |
BowdlerNoun1. English editor who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare (1754-1825). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Bowdler" is a common misspelling or typo for: bowler. |
Synonym: BowdlerSynonym: Thomas Bowdler (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bowdler |
| English words defined with "Bowdler": Thomas Bowdler. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Gordon Bowdler (left), NRCS Soil Conservation Technician, and farmer inspect corn crop. Sweet Corn is one the many truck crops grown on this farm. [Slide 97CS3122]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Thomas Bowdler | Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Bowdler" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Bowdler" is used about 9 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) | 88.89% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Bowdler" 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 |
| Bowdler | Last name | 170 | 48,158 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Bowdler": Thomas Bowdler. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
bowdler | 8 |
cal bowdler | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Bowdler": bowdlerise, bowdlerised, bowdlerises, bowdlerising, bowdlerization, bowdlerizations, bowdlerize, bowdlerized, bowdlerizer, bowdlerizers, bowdlerizes, bowdlerizing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Bowdler": unbowdlerized. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bowlder, lowbred. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-l-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: blowed, blower, bolder, bordel, bowled, bowler, browed, weldor. | |
-2 letters: below, bored, bowed, bowel, bower, dowel, dower, elbow, lobed, lowed, lower, older, orbed, robed, roble, rowed, rowel, world. | |
-3 letters: bled, blew, blow, bode, bold, bole, bore, bowl, bred, brew, brow, doer, dole, dore, drew, lewd, lobe, lode, lord, lore, lowe, orle, owed, redo, robe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-l-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: bowlders. | |
+2 letters: flowerbed. | |
+3 letters: beflowered, bowdlerise, bowdlerize, brownfield, flowerbeds, furbelowed, middlebrow, mindblower, outbrawled. | |
+4 letters: belowground, bladderwort, bowdlerised, bowdlerises, bowdlerized, bowdlerizer, bowdlerizes, brownfields, middlebrows, mindblowers, warmblooded. | |
+5 letters: bladderworts, bowdlerising, bowdlerizers, bowdlerizing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6F 77 64 6C 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... --- .--. -.. .-.. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101111 01110111 01100100 01101100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B o w d l e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006F 0077 0064 006C 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36818970787184 |
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