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JESSAMY

Specialty Definition: JESSAMY

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

JESSAMY. A smart jemmy fellow, a fopling. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Synonyms within Context: JESSAMY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Fop

Noun: fop, fine gentleman; swell; dandy, dandiprat; exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man; fribble, milliner; Jemmy Jessamy, carpet knight; masher, dude.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: JESSAMY

Specialty definitions using "JESSAMY": Jessamy Bride. (references)

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Commercial Usage: JESSAMY

DomainTitle

Books

  • The history of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: JESSAMY

"JESSAMY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.69% of the time. "JESSAMY" is used about 116 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)95.69%11130,796
Adjective (general or positive)2.59%3202,518
Noun (singular)1.72%2245,945
                    Total100.00%116N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: JESSAMY

The following table summarizes the usage of "JESSAMY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
JessamyLast name17046,902
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: JESSAMY

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

jessamy

5

jessamy patricia

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: JESSAMY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-j-m-s-s-y"

-1 letter: myases.

-2 letters: essay, masse, massy, mesas, messy, seams, seamy.

-3 letters: ayes, easy, eyas, jams, jays, jess, maes, mass, mays, mesa, mess, same, says, seam, seas, yams, yeas.

-4 letters: ass, aye, ays, ems, ess, jam, jay, mae, mas, may, sae, say, sea, yam, yea, yes.

-5 letters: ae, am, as, ay, em, es, ma, me, my, ya.

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

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Alternative Orthography: JESSAMY


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

4A 45 53 53 41 4D 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)

01001010 01000101 01010011 01010011 01000001 01001101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#69 &#83 &#83 &#65 &#77 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 0045 0053 0053 0041 004D 0059

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

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

44395353354759

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Names: Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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