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MATY

Definition: MATY

MATY

Noun

1. A native house servant in India.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MATY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Note: Maty \Mat"y\, noun. [Etymology uncertain.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Usage: MATY

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Mike & Maty (1994)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MATY

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

  maty

20

  maty monfort

12

  ashley kate maty olsen

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

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Modern Translations: MATY

Language Translations for "MATY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i shoqërueshëm (communicative, companionable, gregarious, Matey, pally, sociable). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مروى فيه (calculated, deliberate, detailed, forethought, set), ‏مدرووس. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

общителен (chummy, clubbable, communicable, communicative, conversable, convivial, folksy, genial, gregarious, knowable, mellow, neighborly, neighbourly, sociable, unbuttoned), приятелски (amicable, friendly, neighborly, neighbourly, on good terms, pally, social). (various references)

   

French

  

sociable. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

barátkozó természetû (Matey), barátkozó természetű (matey). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atymay

   

Portuguese

  

matutino (matinee), companheiro (accompanist, associate, brother, buddy, chap, chum, companian, companion, compeer, comrade, concomitant, co-participant, cove, fellow, friend, helpmate, helpmeet, inmate, mate, Matey, math, maudlin, pal, partner, stable companion), amigo (boyfriend, brother, bud, chap, chum, downstage, fondle, friend, friendly, kind, kindly, Matey, nice, pal, palm, well wisher). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

общительный (associative, chummy, clubbable, communicable, communicative, companionable, conversable, gregarious, jovial, pally, sociable). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

afable (affable, agreeable, companionable, forthcoming, genial, good natured, gracious, informal, lovable, Matey, smooth, sociable, suave). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thân thiết (chummy, fast, friendly, hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met, matey), thân mật (amicable, chummy, conversant, cordial, friendly, hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met, heartily, hearty, intimate, intimately, matey). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: MATY

Derivations

Words containing "MATY": hermatypic. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: MATY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-m-t-y"

-1 letter: mat, may, tam, yam.

-2 letters: am, at, ay, ma, my, ta, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-m-t-y"
 

+1 letter: amity, atomy, etyma, malty, matey, mayst, meaty, tammy, tryma.

 

+2 letters: adytum, martyr, mateys, mayest, smarty, steamy, tamely, tymbal, tympan.

 

+3 letters: amatory, amenity, aminity, amnesty, anatomy, antonym, anytime, atemoya, cymatia, daytime, ecthyma, empathy, gymnast, maggoty, majesty, martyrs, martyry, mastery, mattery, meatily, mortary, mutably, myomata, payment, smartly, streamy, tramway, trymata, tymbals, tympana, tympani, tympano, tympans, tympany.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MATY


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

4D 41 54 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)

01001101 01000001 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0054 0059

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

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

47355459

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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