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GRILLY

Definition: GRILLY

GRILLY

Transitive verb

1. To broil; to grill; hence, To harass.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Grilly \Gril"ly\, transitive verb. [See Grill, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)


Usage Frequency: GRILLY

"GRILLY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "GRILLY" is used about 30 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (proper)93.33%2865,706
Adverb (general)6.67%2245,945
                    Total100.00%30N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: GRILLY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-l-l-r-y"

-1 letter: gilly, girly, grill.

-2 letters: gill, girl, gyri, illy, lily, rill, yill.

-3 letters: ill, rig.

-4 letters: li.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-l-l-r-y"
 

+2 letters: playgirl, rallying.

 

+3 letters: darlingly, flaringly, girlishly, glaringly, leeringly, playgirls, rallyings, trollying, villagery.

 

+4 letters: alarmingly, alluringly, blurringly, drawlingly, fleeringly, gallerying, galleryite, germinally, gloriously, growlingly, gruelingly, integrally, marginally, originally, pillorying, prodigally, ramblingly, rattlingly, regionally, rightfully, singularly, sterlingly, surgically, swirlingly, tragically, trigonally, trolleying, virginally.

 

+5 letters: bryological, calligraphy, cripplingly, deploringly, drizzlingly, falteringly, frightfully, galleryites, gallimaufry, generically, gillyflower, graphically, grovelingly, grumblingly, imploringly, irregularly, legendarily, lingeringly, magistrally, malariology, organically, prattlingly, religiously, revealingly, revoltingly, startlingly, thrillingly, viceregally.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GRILLY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 52 49 4C 4C 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-.    ..    .-..    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01010010 01001001 01001100 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0049 004C 004C 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

415243464659

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography 		5. Bibliography


  

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