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Definitions: GEMMY |
GEMMYNoun1. Spruce; smart. 2. Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem. |
Date "GEMMY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1829. (references) |
Note: Gemmy \Gem"my\, adjective. [From Gem, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: GEMMY |
| English words defined with "GEMMY": Gemminess. (references) |
| 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 |
gemmy | 68 |
gemmy industry | 28 |
gemmy inflatables | 7 |
gemmy dancing hamster | 4 |
gemmy inc industry | 4 |
c gemmy | 3 |
gemmy hamster | 2 |
gemmy product | 2 |
gemmy dean martin | 2 |
airblown gemmy | 2 |
gemmy inflatable | 2 |
gemmy toy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GEMMY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | funkelnd (blazing, coruscating, gleaming, glittering, scintillating, sparkling). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | emmygay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"GEMMY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emmy, gemi, gemme, gemmie, Gemmil, gempy, gemy, genny, germy, gimny, Glemm, gomm, gommy, Kemmy, lemmy, remmy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "GEMMY" (pronounced 'Gem"my'): Adesmy, Army, Blosmy, Chasmy, Clammy, Crummy, Dormy, Droumy, Exophthalmy, Glummy, gummy, Gurmy, jimmy, mammy, Omy, Ophthalmy, Plummy, Prismy, Pumy, Rammy, scummy, shammy, shimmy, Stemmy, tammy, Thrummy, Tommy, Whimmy, Xerophthalmy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-m-m-y" | |
-2 letters: gem, gey, gym, meg, mem. | |
-3 letters: em, me, mm, my, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-m-m-y" | |
+1 letter: gremmy. | |
+2 letters: gemmily. | |
+3 letters: jemmying. | |
+4 letters: gemmology, yammering. | |
+5 letters: gamesomely, gymnosperm. | |
| 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)47 45 4D 4D 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)01000111 01000101 01001101 01001101 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G E M M Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0045 004D 004D 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)4139474759 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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