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Date "EYE-TEETH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Eye-teeth The canine teeth are so called because their fangs extend upwards nearly to the orbits of the eyes. To draw one's eye-teeth. To take the conceit out of a person; to fleece one without mercy; to make one suffer loss without seeing the manoeuvre by which it was effected. "I guess these Yanks will get their eye-teeth drawn if they don't look sharp." - W. Hepworth Dixon: New America, vol. i. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "EYE-TEETH" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EYE-TEETH" is used about 3 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 (plural) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: eyeteeth. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-h-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: teethe. | |
-3 letters: teeth, tythe. | |
-4 letters: hyte, teth, thee, they, tyee, yett. | |
-5 letters: eth, eye, het, hey, tee, tet, the, thy, tye, yeh, yet. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-e-h-t-t-y" | |
+5 letters: heterogeneity. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 59 45 2D 54 45 45 54 48 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01011001 01000101 00101101 01010100 01000101 01000101 01010100 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E Y E - T E E T H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0059 0045 002D 0054 0045 0045 0054 0048 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)395939155439395442 |
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