NICKLEBY

Date "NICKLEBY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)

Specialty Definition: NICKLEBY

Domain	Definition
Literature	Nickleby (Mrs.). An endless talker, always introducing something quite foreign to the matter in hand, and pluming herself on her penetration. (Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: NICKLEBY

Specialty definitions using "NICKLEBY": Belvawney ♦ Creature-comforts ♦ Do-the-Boys' Hall ♦ Mantalini ♦ Skeleton Jackets. (references)

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Modern Usage: NICKLEBY

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Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Nicholas Nickleby (1947)

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001)

Nicholas Nickleby (1977)

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Commercial Usage: NICKLEBY

Domain	Title
Books	The Doughty Street Novels: Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge (Ams Studies in the Nineteenth Century, 26) (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: NICKLEBY

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Photo Album: NICKLEBY

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: NICKLEBY

"NICKLEBY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NICKLEBY" is used about 15 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)	100%	15	90,616

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NICKLEBY

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
nicholas nickleby	61
nickleby	4
nicholas nickleby movie	4
nickleby nicolas	4
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Anagrams: NICKLEBY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-k-l-n-y"
	-2 letters: beylic, beylik, byline, nicely, nickel, nickle.
	-3 letters: blink, cline, clink, inbye, inkle, liken, liney, linky, yince.
	-4 letters: beck, bice, bike, bile, bilk, bine, blin, ceil, cine, icky, inby, inky, inly, kibe, kiln, kine, lice, lick, lien, like, line, link, liny, neck, nice, nick, yelk.
	-5 letters: bel, ben, bey, bin, bye, cel, elk, ice, ick.
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