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Date "PAROLLES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Parolles (3 syl.). A man of vain words, who dubs himself "captain," pretends to knowledge which he has not, and to sentiments he never feels. (French, paroles, a creature of empty words.) (Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends Well.) "I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fixed evils sit so fit on him That they take place ..." Act i. 1. He was a mere Parolles in a pedagogue's wig. A pretender, a man of words, and a pedant. The allusion is to the bragging, faithless, slandering villain mentioned above. "Rust, sword; cool, blushes; and, Parolles, live Safest in shame; being fooled, by fooling thrive; There's place and means for every man alive." Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends Well, iv. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Blusterer | Noun: blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler; fanfaron; braggart; (boaster); bully, terrorist, rough; bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, roarer; Mohock, Mohawk; drawcansir, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos; jingo; desperado, dare-devil, fire eater; fury; (violent person); rowdy; slang-whanger, tough. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PAROLLES |
| Specialty definitions using "PAROLLES": Bobadil ♦ Cap of Time. (references) |
| "PAROLLES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "PAROLLES" is used about 13 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) | 69.23% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (plural) | 30.77% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-l-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: pallors, paroles, pollers, repolls, reposal, spaller. | |
-2 letters: aslope, lapels, lapser, lopers, loreal, operas, pallor, pareos, parles, parole, parols, pearls, polars, polers, poller, proles, repoll, sloper, soaper, splore, sporal. | |
-3 letters: aloes, apers, apres, arles, arose, asper, earls, lapel, lapse, lares, laser, leaps, lears, loper, lopes, loral, lores, losel, loser, ollas, opals, opera, orals, orles. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-l-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: appellors, gallopers, preallots, scalloper, wallopers. | |
+2 letters: allotropes, patrollers, pellagrous, personally, scallopers, superalloy. | |
+3 letters: allopatries, allotropies, leptospiral, phylloxeras, portabellas, portabellos, propellants, superalloys. | |
+4 letters: ailurophiles, allelomorphs, boilerplates, haloperidols, impersonally, morphallaxes, nonparallels, petrodollars, placeholders, prothalluses, realpolitiks, spheroidally, trophallaxes. | |
+5 letters: aspergilloses, aspergillosis, bipropellants, blepharoplast, ceruloplasmin, electroplates, porcellaneous, supercolossal, superloyalist, supernormally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 52 4F 4C 4C 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. --- .-.. .-.. . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000001 01010010 01001111 01001100 01001100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A R O L L E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 0052 004F 004C 004C 0045 0053 |
| 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)5035524946463953 |
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