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Date "GRUNDY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Grundy What will Mrs. Grundy say? What will our rivals or neighbours say? The phrase is from Tom Morton's Speed the Plough. In the first scene Mrs. Ashfield shows herself very jealous of neighbour Grundy, and farmer Ashfield says to her, "Be quiet, wull ye? Always ding, dinging Dame Grundy into my ears. What will Mrs. Grundy zay? What will Mrs. Grundy think? ..." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | Granulated pig iron used in making granulated steel. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Grundy, Virginia."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fashion | Manners, breeding; (politeness); air, demeanor; (appearance); savoir faire; gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety, biens_ance; conventions of society; Mrs. Grundy; punctilio; form, formality; etiquette, point of etiquette; dress. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: GRUNDY |
| Specialty definitions using "GRUNDY": Browns. (references) |
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Lyrics | For saving the world from Solomon Grundy (Superman's Song; performing artist: Crash Test Dummies) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Grundy (1980) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Hardware store. Grundy Center, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hardware merchant. Grundy Center, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Scale at elevator. Grundy Center, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Stores opposite courthouse. Grundy Center, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Stores on main street. Grundy Center, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bank. Grundy Center, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Main street. Grundy Center, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Courthouse. Grundy Center, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Public library. Grundy Center, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Harness shop. Grundy Center, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Senator Joseph R. Grundy | The "tired business man" is one whose business is usually not a successful one. |
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| "GRUNDY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 73.91% of the time. "GRUNDY" is used about 23 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) | 73.91% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 21.74% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GRUNDY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Grundy | Last name | 2,000 | 7,152 |
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1. Grundy, VA (town, FIPS 33648) |
Expressions using "GRUNDY": Grundy Center ♦ Grundy County ♦ mrs. grundy. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "GRUNDY": Yates-Grundy. | |
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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 "GRUNDY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Turkish | tutucu ve iffetli tip (mrs. grundy), konu komşu (kith and kin, mrs. grundy), elalem (mrs. grundy, people). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"GRUNDY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: grendy, grindy, Grinky, Grudie, Grunay, Gyroney. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-n-r-u-y" | |
-1 letter: dungy. | |
-2 letters: drug, dung, durn, nurd, rung, rynd, undy. | |
-3 letters: dry, dug, dun, gnu, gun, guy, rug, run, urd, urn. | |
-4 letters: nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-n-r-u-y" | |
+2 letters: burgundy, ungreedy, updrying. | |
+3 letters: greyhound. | |
+4 letters: drudgingly, enduringly, greyhounds, grudgingly, gynandrous, playground, restudying, underlying. | |
+5 letters: androgynous, bodysurfing, corduroying, dangerously, glandularly, hydrogenous, playgrounds, roughdrying, underbuying, underlaying, underpaying, unguardedly. | |
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