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Definition: FLICKING |
FLICKINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Flick |
Date "FLICKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | FLICKING. Cutting. Flick me some panam and caffan; cut me some bread and cheese. Flick the peter; cut off the cloak-bag, or portmanteau. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Stop flicking at me. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) If I ever do get a girl to come back to my place I won't know what to do with her. I'll be flicking hot fat at her with a spatula (Dinnerladies; writing credit: Victoria Wood) | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Ignite; fire; flame; lighter; lighting; flicking; flint; fuel. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And then Granma sighed deeply and her breathing grew steady and easy, and her closed eyelids ceased their flicking. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, flicking up and down of the eyes, drooling, loss of balance, and dizziness. (references) | |
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| "FLICKING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.28% of the time. "FLICKING" is used about 257 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 97.28% | 250 | 18,796 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.33% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.39% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 257 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "FLICKING": fringe-flicking. | |
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| 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 |
flicking | 14 |
flicking off | 4 |
flicking glasses | 3 |
flicking off picture | 2 |
bean flicking | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLICKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 甩 (fling). (various references) | |
German | schnellend. (various references) | |
Korean | 가볍게 침 (Chucking, PAT). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickingflay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"FLICKING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ficken, flacking, Flickan, flickings, fricking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FLICKING" (pronounced fli"king) |
| 5 | -l i" k i ng | clicking, licking. |
| 4 | -i" k i ng | kicking, picking, sticking, ticking, tricking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-g-i-i-k-l-n" | |
-1 letter: licking. | |
-2 letters: filing, liking. | |
-3 letters: cling, clink, ficin, flick, fling, icing. | |
-4 letters: fink, flic, gink, kiln, king, lick, ling, link, nick. | |
-5 letters: cig, fig, fil, fin, gin, ick, ilk, ink, kif, kin, lin, nil. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-g-i-i-k-l-n" | |
+2 letters: flickering, frolicking. | |
+3 letters: backfilling. | |
+4 letters: flickeringly. | |
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