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Date "KNICKERBOCKER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Knickerbocker (Diedrich). The imaginary author of a facetious History of New York, by Washington Irving. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: KNICKERBOCKER |
| Non-English Usage: "KNICKERBOCKER" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (plus fours). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Photographed about the time she was taken over by the Navy. Rebuilt in 1904, she was acquired for Navy service on 5 May 1917 and commissioned on 22 September 1917 as USS Knickerbocker (SP-479). She was stricken on 16 March 1918 because of her poor condition, but a shortage of tugs caused her to be soon reinstated. She was finally stricken by the Navy on 15 February 1919 and sold on 18 February 1919. Credit: NAVY. |  | Knickerbocker Special leaving St. Louis Union Station. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Knickerbocker Trust Building and [Waldorf] Astoria, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Knickerbocker Hotel, New York, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "KNICKERBOCKER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "KNICKERBOCKER" is used about 10 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 (singular) | 70% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 30% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "KNICKERBOCKER" 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 |
| Knickerbocker | Last name | 1,000 | 14,270 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Knickerbocker Village, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "KNICKERBOCKER": knickerbocker yarn. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "KNICKERBOCKER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | farvet noppegarn (knickerbocker yarn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | knopengaren (knickerbocker yarn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fil boutonné (knickerbocker yarn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | buntes Noppengarn (knickerbocker yarn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μπουτονέ μονό καρντέ νήμα (knickerbocker yarn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | filo bottonato (knickerbocker yarn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ickerbockerknay fio com borbotos (knickerbocker yarn). (various references) new-yorker. (various references) hilado con botones (knickerbocker yarn). (various references) ชาวนิวยอร์ก, ผู้ที่สืบเชื้อสายจากชาว"ัตช์ที่มาตั้งรกรากที่นิวยอร์กในยุคแรกๆ. (various references) new york'un yerlisi, new yorklu (gothamite, new yorker). (various references) người dân Nui-óoc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "KNICKERBOCKER": knickerbockers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-c-e-e-i-k-k-k-n-o-r-r" | |
-3 letters: knobkerrie. | |
-5 letters: beckoner, bickerer, cerebric, cicerone, corncrib, croceine, reckoner. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-c-e-e-i-k-k-k-n-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: knickerbockers. | |
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