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Date "GIFT-HORSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Gift-horse Don't look a gift-horse in the mouth. When a present is made, do not inquire too minutely into its intrinsic value. Latin: "Noli equi dentes inspicere donati." "Si quis det mannos ne quære in dentibus annos" (Monkish). Italian: "A cavallao daio non guardar in bocca." French: "A cheval donné il ne faut pas regarder aux dents." Spanish: "A cavall dato no le mirem el diénte." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "GIFT-HORSE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GIFT-HORSE" 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 (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "GIFT-HORSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Vietnamese | quà tặng, con ngựa được tặng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: foresight. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-h-i-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: fighters, freights, ghostier, refights. | |
-2 letters: fighter, forgets, forties, freight, frights, goiters, goitres, goriest, heriots, hogties, hoister, ogreish, refight, resight, shifter, shortie, sighter. | |
-3 letters: egoist, eights, ergots, fetish, fetors, fights, firths, fisher, fogies, forest, forges, forget, fortes, fortis, foster, fright, friths, froths, girths, gofers, goiter, goitre, griefs, grifts, griots, griths, heriot, hogtie, horste, hosier. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-h-i-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: foresights. | |
+2 letters: foresighted, overflights. | |
+3 letters: foresightful. | |
+4 letters: flugelhornist, foresightedly, fortnightlies. | |
+5 letters: electrofishing, flugelhornists, foreshortening, forthrightness. | |
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