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Definitions: KITTLE |
KITTLEAdjective1. Ticklish; not easily managed; troublesome; difficult; variable. Intransitive verb1. To bring forth young, as a cat; to kitten; to litter. Transitive verb1. To tickle. |
Date "KITTLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Crosswords: KITTLE |
| English words defined with "KITTLE": Kittel, Kittlish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "KITTLE": First Stroke is Half the Battle ♦ Kittle of Fish, KITTLE PITCHERING ♦ Very Vulgar Vulgarisms. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kittle, residence at 5402 Byna Ave., Fort Worth, Texas. Bathroom. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "KITTLE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "KITTLE" is used about 4 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) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "KITTLE" 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 |
| Kittle | Last name | 1,000 | 7,965 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "KITTLE": kittle cattle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "KITTLE": kittle-drum. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
kittle | 14 |
ron kittle | 13 |
house kittle | 12 |
crabtrees house kittle | 10 |
crabtree house kittle | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "KITTLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | I Vështirë (awkward, convoluted, deep, difficult, exacting, formidable, hairy, hard, intractable, labored, laborious, laboured, onerous, painful, parlous, recondite, rough, scabrous, stiff, ticklish, toilful, trying), Gudulis (tickle, titillate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Озадачавам (Fox), Опърничав, Опак, "ъделичкам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Lechtivý (blue, off colour, scabrous, ticklish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Nehezen Megoldható, Nehéz Emberek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ittlekay Melindroso (doll-like, fastidious, hug, kid glove, pernickety, ticklish, umbrageous, well-made), Intratável (crab, crabbed, crabby, cross-grained, currish, fractious, hard boiled, impractical, intractable, restive, snappish, snappy, sullen, surly, unapproachable, uncompromising, unmanageable, unsociable), Incerto (borderline, chancy, double-minded, doubtful, doubtless, Dublin, fitful, floating bridge, hazardous cargo, incalculable, inconstant, insecure, lubricous, precarious, problematic, questionable, risky, shaky, shifting, slippery, slippy, tottery, touch and go, unassured, uncertain, undecided, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, unsure), Galanteador (coquet, dangler, do-naught, good for nothing, ladylike, laggard, mask, philanderer, wooer), Fazer Cócegas, Excitar (agitate, calorify, disgruntle, electrization, enlace, excite, exciting, ferment, fire alarm, flurry, flush, fluster, galvanize, incense, incite, inflammability, intrigue, irritate, kindle, move, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir, stir up, thrill, thurify, waken, whet), Espinhoso (briery, prickly, spiny, thorny, tough), Divertir (amuse, amusing, beguile, disport oneself, divert, entertain, exhilarate, jollify, recreate, tickle), Delicado (airy, attentive, chivalrous, civil, complaisant, considerate, courteous, courtly, dainty, delicate, exquisite, fasting, fine, Flossy, fragile, frail, gaunt, gentle, gingery, kid glove, lean, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, out and out, pernickety, polite, refined, scabrous, sensitive, sensory, sleazy, slender, slight, sophisticated, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, urbane, well-made), Coceguento (ticklish), Caprichoso (arbitrary, cantankerous, caprice, capricious, crotchety, difficult, extravagant, faddy, fanciful, fitful, freakish, maggoty, notional, peevish, skittish, temperamental, tidy, viewy, wayward, whim, whimsical), Animar (actuate, animate, assure, awake, awaken, be inspired, brighten, brisk, calorify, cheer, cherish, Chirk, comfort, embolden, encourage, enliven, ensue, exhilarated, flush, ginger, grandmotherly, hearten, heat, incite, inspirit, jazz, jolly, liven, liven up, nerve, pep, perk, propellant, rally, rouse, smarten, spirit, stimulate, uphold, vitalize, vivify, warm). (various references) Озадачивать, Обидчивый. (various references) zbuniti pitanjem, zagolicati (tickle), težak (bulky, crushing, difficile, difficult, formidable, grave, hard, heavy, hefty, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumbering, ponderous, punishing, rough, swingeing, trying, uneasy, weighty), riskantan (chancy, hazardous, risky), škakljiv (ticklish). (various references) Kittla (tickle, titillate), Kinkig (choosey, difficult, discriminated, fastidious, fussy, parlous, particular, pernickety, petulant, spiny, squeamish, testing, tricky), Vansklig (difficult, hazardous, precarious, risky), Förvirra (addle, baffle, bamboozle, befog, bemuse, confound, confuse, daze, disconcert, disorient, disorientate, distract, dizzy, embarrass, flummox, flurry, fluster, fuddle, gravel, perplex, unsettle, upset). (various references) ที่ยุ่งยาก. (various references) zor beğenen tip (kittle cattle), titiz ve detaycı tipler (kittle cattle). (various references) khó khăn (arduous, arduously, difficult, hard, thick, thorny, uneasy), hay giận. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "KITTLE": kittled, kittler, kittles, kittlest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "KITTLE": skittle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "KITTLE": skittles. (additional references) | |
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"KITTLE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cittle, Crittle, iittle, kathle, katle, kattie, Keithley, keitle, Kettley, Kettly, Kitele, Kitely, Kitley, Kitte, kittie, Kittlitz, Knittel, knittle, Kotte, Kottke, kottle, Kritalla, pittle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "KITTLE" (pronounced ki"tul) |
| 5 | k i" t u l | Kittel, skittle. |
| 4 | -i" t u l | acquittal, belittle, brittle, committal, little, noncommittal, spittle, tittle, transmittal, vittle, Whittle. |
| 3 | -t u l | accidental, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brutal, butyl, Cantle, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, compartmental, congenital, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, digital, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, genital, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, infantile, infertile, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, lentil, lintel, mantel, mantle, marital, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, nonfatal, nongovernmental, nonvolatile, occidental, occipital, orbital, oriental, ornamental, parental, parietal, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, premarital, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skeletal, societal, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, throttle, title, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, volatile, Wintle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: kittel. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-k-l-t-t" | |
-1 letter: title. | |
-2 letters: kilt, kite, like, lite, tike, tile, tilt. | |
-3 letters: elk, ilk, kit, lei, lek, let, lie, lit, tel, tet, tie, til, tit. | |
-4 letters: el, et, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-k-l-t-t" | |
+1 letter: kittled, kittler, kittles, skittle. | |
+2 letters: kittlest, skittles, talkiest, tentlike. | |
+3 letters: klutziest, puttylike, stalkiest, talkative, tinkliest, toothlike. | |
+4 letters: buttermilk, littleneck, ticketless, trickliest. | |
+5 letters: buttermilks, kinetoplast, kittenishly, latticework, lickspittle, littlenecks, multitasked, rickettsial, talkatively, telekinetic, trumpetlike. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 49 54 54 4C 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- .. - - .-.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01001001 01010100 01010100 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K I T T L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0049 0054 0054 004C 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)454354544639 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albán, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, alban, Arnavut |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, cseh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, người Séc tiếng Séc |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugál, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, svéd, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | tailandês, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turkisk, türkçe, türk, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, angol, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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