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Definition: DOOLY |
DOOLYNoun1. A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. |
Note: Dooly \Doo"ly\, noun; plural Doolies. [Skr.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vehicle | Equipage, turn-out; coach, chariot, phaeton, break, mail phaeton, wagonette, drag, curricle, tilbury, whisky, landau, barouche, victoria, brougham, clarence, calash, caleche, britzka, araba, kibitka; berlin; sulky, desobligeant, sociable, vis-a-vis, dormeuse; jaunting car, outside car; dandi; doolie, dooly; munchil, palki; roller skates, skate; runabout; ski; tonjon; vettura. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DOOLY |
| English words defined with "DOOLY": Doolies. (references) |
| "DOOLY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DOOLY" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DOOLY": Dooly County. 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 |
dooly | 17 |
dooly county georgia | 10 |
dooly county | 5 |
dooly vince | 3 |
dooly prison state | 3 |
dooly parton | 2 |
buster dooly | 2 |
ga dooly county | 2 |
tom dooly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-l-o-o-y" | |
-1 letter: odyl, oldy. | |
-2 letters: dol, loo, old, yod. | |
-3 letters: do, lo, od, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-l-o-o-y" | |
+1 letter: bloody, dhooly, goodly. | |
+2 letters: doomily, duopoly, lycopod, moodily, plywood, polypod. | |
+3 letters: bloodily, broodily, copyhold, cotyloid, doxology, droopily, floodway, gardyloo, hydrosol, ideology, ladyhood, lycopods, odiously, pedology, plywoods, polypods, polypody, polypoid, unbloody, woodenly. | |
+4 letters: audiology, bloodying, condyloid, condyloma, copyholds, cotyledon, crookedly, dobsonfly, doomfully, earlywood, floodways, foolhardy, hydrofoil, hydrology, hydrosols, hypoploid, iridology, ladyhoods, odorously, polyploid, radiology. | |
+5 letters: ballyhooed, botryoidal, broodingly, cardiology, codicology, coemployed, composedly, condylomas, copyholder, cotyledons, decorously, demonology, dendrology, deontology, dolorously, droopingly, earlywoods, holystoned, hydrofoils, hydrologic, hydrosolic, hypoploids, lycopodium, modulatory, orthodoxly, photolyzed, podophylli, polyhedron, polyploids, polyploidy, polypodies, profoundly, schoolyard, stylopodia, toroidally, troglodyte, wondrously, yellowwood. | |
| 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)44 4F 4F 4C 59 |
| 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 01001111 01001100 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D O O L Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 004F 004F 004C 0059 |
| 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)3849494659 |
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