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LIMMER

Definitions: LIMMER

LIMMER

Adjective

1. Limber.

Noun

1. A man rope at the side of a ladder.

2. A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute.

3. A mongrel, as a cross between the mastiff and hound.

4. A limehound; a leamer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LIMMER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)


Crosswords: LIMMER

English words defined with "LIMMER": Limer. (references)
Non-English Usage: "LIMMER" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (passage, passage way, scupper).

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Name Usage Frequency: LIMMER

The following table summarizes the usage of "LIMMER" 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
LimmerLast name30023,645
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LIMMER

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

  limmer boot

19

  limmer

4

  lou limmer

3

  limmer hiking boot

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

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Derivations: LIMMER

Derivations

Words beginning with "LIMMER": limmers. (additional references)

Words ending with "LIMMER": aglimmer, glimmer, slimmer. (additional references)

Words containing "LIMMER": glimmered, glimmering, glimmerings, glimmers, slimmers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LIMMER"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "LIMMER" (pronounced li"mer)
4l i" m erglimmer, slimmer.
3-i" m erBrimmer, dimmer, excimer, grimmer, Primmer, Rimmer, shimmer, simmer, skimmer, swimmer, trimmer.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: LIMMER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-m-r"

-1 letter: miler, mimer.

-2 letters: emir, lier, lime, lire, merl, mile, mime, mire, riel, rile, rime.

-3 letters: elm, ire, lei, lie, mel, mem, mil, mim, mir, rei, rem, rim.

-4 letters: el, em, er, li, me, mi, mm, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-m-r"
 

+1 letter: glimmer, limmers, malmier, slimmer.

 

+2 letters: aglimmer, clammier, glimmers, imbalmer, memorial, millirem, plummier, slimmers, slummier.

 

+3 letters: filmmaker, glimmered, imbalmers, klezmorim, meliorism, memorials, micromole, millirems, multigerm, oriflamme, sommelier.

 

+4 letters: commercial, filmmakers, flummeries, glimmering, immaterial, immaturely, immemorial, immersible, immortelle, meliorisms, memorially, micromoles, millimeter, millstream, multiarmed, neurilemma, oriflammes, polymerism, semiformal, sommeliers, summerlike, trammeling.

 

+5 letters: commercials, embroilment, firmamental, flimflammer, glimmerings, immobilizer, immortalise, immortalize, immortelles, imperialism, imperilment, impermeable, implementer, implementor, lamelliform, lammergeier, materialism, maternalism, memorabilia, memorialise, memorialist, memorialize, memorizable, microfilmed, microfilmer, milliampere, millimeters, millstreams, momentarily, multimember, neurilemmal, neurilemmas, polymerisms, recommittal, symmetrical, trammelling.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LIMMER


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

4C 49 4D 4D 45 52

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "LIMMER"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "LIMMER"

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