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Crab Louse

Definition: Crab Louse

Crab Louse

Noun

1. Infests the pubic region of the human body.

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Specialty Definition: Crab Louse

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

CRAB LOUSE. A species of louse peculiar to the human body; the male is denominated a cock, the female a hen. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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Synonyms: Crab Louse

Synonyms: crab (n), pubic louse (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Crab Louse

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

crab louse

64
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Modern Translation: Crab Louse

Language Translations for "crab louse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

muòka. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

schaamluis (pubic louse), platluis (pubic louse), platje (pubic louse). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

satiainen (pubic louse). (various references)

   

French

  

morpion (crisscross, noughts and crosses). (various references)

   

German

  

Schamlaus (pubic louse), Filzlaus (crab). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ψείρα των τριχών της ήβης (pubic louse). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pidocchio del pube (pubic louse). (various references)

   

Manx

  

thollag, meeyl vaaigagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abcray ouselay

   

Spanish

  

piojo ladilla (pubic louse). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

flatlus (pubic louse). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kasık biti. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Crab Louse

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Phthirus pubis, Pthirus pubis. (various references)

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Anagrams: Crab Louse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-o-r-s-u"

-1 letter: arbuscle, carousel, rubeolas.

-2 letters: acerous, bascule, bescour, boraces, boucles, carolus, carouse, claroes, closure, coalers, colures, corbels, curable, escolar, labours, obscure, oculars, oracles, oscular, recoals, recusal, roubles, rubaces, rubeola, secular, solacer, suboral, subrace.

-3 letters: abuser, arouse, balers, blares, blears, blouse, borals, boreal, boucle, boules, bourse, braces, bursae, bursal, cabers, cables, carbos, carles, carobs, carols.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-l-o-r-s-u"
 

+2 letters: construable, uncrossable.

 

+3 letters: counterblast, noncrushable, prosecutable, ribonuclease, vocabularies.

 

+4 letters: claustrophobe, commensurable, commensurably, counterblasts, elucubrations, ribonucleases.

 

+5 letters: arboricultures, binocularities, claustrophobes, constabularies, discourageable, rediscountable, relubrications, republications, undiscoverable.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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