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Definition: GEORDIE |
GEORDIENoun1. A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp. |
"GEORDIE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a farmer", "an earthworker", "the earth", "work". |
Date "GEORDIE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
Crosswords: GEORDIE |
| Specialty definitions using "GEORDIE": Deans. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Geordie (1955) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "GEORDIE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.55% of the time. "GEORDIE" is used about 152 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 (singular) | 83.55% | 127 | 28,395 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.45% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 152 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "GEORDIE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a farmer", "an earthworker", "the earth", "work". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "GEORDIE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Gjergj | Male | Albanian | George |
| Georgios | Male | Ancient Greek | George |
| Kevork | Male | Armenian | George |
| Gorka | Male | Basque | George |
| Georgi | Male | Bulgarian | George |
| Jordi | Male | Catalan | George |
| Jory | Male | Cornish | George |
| Jirí | Male | Czech | George |
| Jørgen | Male | Danish | George |
| Jorck | Male | Danish | George |
| Georgina | Female | Dutch | George |
| Joris | Male | Dutch | George |
| Geordie | Male | English | George |
| George | Male | English | N/A |
| Georgia | Female | English | George |
| Georgie | Male, Female | English | George |
| Georgina | Female | English | George |
| Georgo | Male | Esperanto | George |
| Irja | Female | Finnish | George |
| Yrjänä | Male | Finnish | George |
| Yrjö | Male | Finnish | George |
| Georges | Male | French | George |
| Georgette | Female | French | George |
| Georgine | Female | French | George |
| Joris | Male | Frisian | George |
| Georg | Male | German | George |
| Georgina | Female | German | George |
| Jörg | Male | German | George |
| Jürgen | Male | German | George |
| Georgios | Male | Greek | George |
| György | Male | Hungarian | George |
| Györgyi | Female | Hungarian | George |
| Seoirse | Male | Irish | George |
| Giorgia | Female | Italian | George |
| Giorgio | Male | Italian | George |
| Jurgis | Male | Lithuanian | George |
| Jerzy | Male | Polish | George |
| Jorge | Male | Portuguese | George |
| Georgeta | Female | Romanian | George |
| Gheorghe | Male | Romanian | George |
| Georgi | Male | Russian | George |
| Yuri | Male | Russian | George |
| Georgina | Female | Scandinavian | George |
| Deòrsa | Male | Scottish | George |
| Seòras | Male | Scottish | George |
| Jure | Male | Slovene | George |
| Jurij | Male | Slovene | George |
| Jorge | Male | Spanish | George |
| Örjan | Male | Swedish | George |
| Göran | Male | Swedish | George |
| Jöran | Male | Swedish | George |
| Jörgen | Male | Swedish | George |
| Jurij | Male | Ukrainian | George |
| Siôrs | Male | Welsh | George |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GEORDIE": Geordie-irishmen. | |
| 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 |
geordie | 21 |
geordie midi | 12 |
gabry geordie ponte | 9 |
geordie johnson | 9 |
johnson brian geordie | 5 |
dictionary geordie | 4 |
geordie girl | 3 |
geordie song | 3 |
geordie star war | 3 |
geordie wee | 2 |
geordie lyrics | 2 |
band geordie | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"GEORDIE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gardie, georgdi, Georgiev, Georgijev, gordie, Gorvie, Gourdie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "GEORDIE" (pronounced 'Geor"die'): laddie. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-o-r" | |
-1 letter: edgier, oreide. | |
-2 letters: dirge, dogie, edger, eider, erode, geode, geoid, gored, greed, gride, ridge. | |
-3 letters: deer, dere, dire, doer, doge, dore, dree, dreg, edge, eger, eide, ergo, geed, gied, gird, giro, goer, gore, gree, grid, ired, ogee, ogre, rede, redo, reed, ride, rode. | |
-4 letters: dee, die, dig, doe, dog, dor, ego, ere, erg, ged. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-i-o-r" | |
+2 letters: dodgeries, doggeries, endoergic, ergotized, geometrid, redingote, ridgepole. | |
+3 letters: biodegrade, derogative, dogberries, endergonic, geometrids, neighbored, overdesign, overdyeing, overgilded, overgirded, proceeding, recognised, recognized, redingotes, reendowing, remodeling, reordering, ridgepoles. | |
+4 letters: allegorised, allegorized, bedcovering, biodegraded, biodegrades, categorised, categorized, coredeeming, deflowering, deforesting, deglamorize, domineering, embordering, endeavoring, forefending, foresighted, freeloading, geometrised, geometrized, gradiometer, misgoverned, mongrelized, neighboured, nonbreeding, outbreeding, overdecking, overdesigns, overediting, overfeeding, overindulge, overlending, overlighted, overnighted, overseeding, overweighed, preordering, proceedings, redeploying, redigestion, reembodying, remodelling, reorganized, rerecording, resoldering, retroceding, stevedoring. | |
| 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 4F 52 44 49 45 |
| 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 01001111 01010010 01000100 01001001 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G E O R D I E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0045 004F 0052 0044 0049 0045 |
| 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)41394952384339 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Derived from 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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