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Date "GRIMSBY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Grimsby (Lincolnshire). Grim was a fisherman who rescued from a drifting boat an infant named Habloc, who he adopted and brought up. This infant turned out to be the son of the king of Denmark, and when the boy was restored to his royal sire Grim was laden with gifts. He now returned to Lincolnshire and built the town which he called after his own name. The ancient seal of the town contains the names of Gryme and Habloc. This is the foundation of the mediæval tales about Havelock the Dane. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Grimsby is strongly associated with the sea fishing industry.
There is a also the small town of Grimsby, Ontario
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Grimsby (2001 population 21,297) is a town on Lake Ontario in Ontario, Canada.
| North: Lake Ontario | |||||
| West: Hamilton, |
Grimsby | East: Lincoln | |||
| South: West Lincoln |
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| "GRIMSBY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GRIMSBY" is used about 275 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 (proper) | 100% | 275 | 17,685 |
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GRIMSBY": grimsby-based, Grimsby-louth. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "GRIMSBY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Esperanto | Grimzbio. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | imsbygray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"GRIMSBY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brisby, Gramby, Gribsby, Grimesby, grimsay, Grimsdyke, Grinby. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-m-r-s-y" | |
-2 letters: brigs, brims, grimy. | |
-3 letters: bigs, brig, brim, bris, gibs, grim, gyms, gyri, mibs, migs, mirs, miry, ribs, rigs, rims, rimy. | |
-4 letters: big, bis, bys, gib, gym, ism, mib, mig, mir, mis, rib, rig, rim, sib, sim, sir, sri. | |
-5 letters: bi, by, is, mi, my, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-m-r-s-y" | |
+5 letters: embryogenies, embryologies, embryologist. | |
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