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Definition: DODMAN |
DODMANNoun1. Any shellfish which casts its shell, as a lobster. 2. A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dodman or Doddiman. A snail. A word still common in Norfolk; but Fairfax, in his Bulk and Selvedge (1674), speaks of "a snayl or dodman." "Doddiman, doddiman, put out your horn, Here comes a thief to steal your corn." Norfolk rhyme. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DODMAN |
| English words defined with "DODMAN": Hodmandod. (references) |
| "DODMAN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "DODMAN" is used about 10 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) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DODMAN": Start-dodman. | |
| 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 |
nicholas dodman | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-m-n-o" | |
-1 letter: monad, nomad. | |
-2 letters: dado, damn, dona, mano, moan, noma. | |
-3 letters: add, ado, and, dad, dam, dom, don, mad, man, moa, mod, mon, nam, nod, nom, odd. | |
-4 letters: ad, am, an, do, ma, mo, na, no, od, om, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-m-n-o" | |
+1 letter: diamond, goddamn. | |
+2 letters: bondmaid, diamonds, goddamns. | |
+3 letters: andromeda, bondmaids, commanded, demantoid, diamonded, dominated, goddamned, mordanted. | |
+4 letters: admonished, andromedas, demantoids, dendrogram, diamonding, endodermal, goddamming, goddamning, maidenhood, manifolded, meadowland, promenaded, ramrodding, randomized. | |
+5 letters: dendrograms, denominated, diamondback, endocardium, gormandised, gormandized, landlordism, maidenhoods, meadowlands, pseudomonad, rodomontade. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 4F 44 4D 41 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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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)01000100 01001111 01000100 01001101 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D O D M A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 004F 0044 004D 0041 004E |
| 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)384938473548 |
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