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"PHYLLIS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the foliage". |
Date "PHYLLIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Phyllis A country girl. (Virgil: Eclogues, iii. and v.) "Country messes, Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses." Milton: L'Allegro. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm also known as, uh, Benny the Groin, Sammy the Schnazz, Elmer the Fudd, Tubby the Tuba, and once as Miss Phyllis Levine. (Analyze This; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan; Peter Tolan) Yeah, Phyllis. (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn) It was an accident, Phyllis. (Quick Change; writing credit: Howard Franklin) Dorcas and Phyllis and Glynis are sorts I'll agree are three jolly good sports But cream of the crop, tip of the top It's Mary Poppins, and there we stop! (Mary Poppins; writing credit: P.L. Travers; Bill Walsh) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show (1968) Phyllis of the Follies (1928) The Flirtations of Phyllis (1921) Nineteen and Phyllis (1920) A Phyllis of the Sierras (1915) | |
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 | Field boss at the New Miami Hutterite Community near Shelby, MT, talks to Phyllis Phillips, NRCS District Conservationist, about this year's potato crop. [Slide 97CS3052]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Phyllis Phillips, NRCS District Conservationist, Ralph Lindberg, and Joe Bear (right), NRCS college co-op student trainee from Dickinson State University, Dickinson, ND, inspect native grasses in a wetland on Lindberg's ranch near Shelby, MT. [Slide 97CS3. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Amos Wurz, field boss at the New Miami Hutterite Community near Shelby, Montana talks to Phyllis Phillips, NRCS, District Conservationist about this years potato crop. Credit: USDA. |  | Biological aide Ellie Giron (left) and ARS chemist Phyllis Johnson prepare a sample for analysis at the ARS Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Bruce Fritz.. |
 | Phyllis Schlafly (right), half-length portrait, facing right, with Mrs. Gladys O'Donnell (left), the opposing candidate for the presidency of the National Federation of Republican Women at the Women's Press Club, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Phyllis, winner at Riverside. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Phyllis, Riverside. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Desha and Phyllis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Center of action in "The Night before Christmas," opening Thursday. Forrest Orr, George Matthews, Louis Sorin and Phyllis Brooks are involved in the daffy proceedings. The comedy, by Laura and S.J. Perelman, is concerned with larceny. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Phyllis Diller | I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. |
| Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? | |
| Living in Hollywood is like living in a lit cigar butt. | |
| You can say the nastiest things about yourself without offending anyone. | |
| Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. | |
| We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. | |
| Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "PHYLLIS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PHYLLIS" is used about 241 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% | 241 | 19,264 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PHYLLIS" 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 |
| Phyllis | First name Female | 219,000 | 93 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "PHYLLIS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the foliage". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "PHYLLIS." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Philis | Female | English | Phyllis |
| Phillis | Female | English | Phyllis |
| Phyliss | Female | English | Phyllis |
| Phyllida | Female | English | Phyllis |
| Phyllis | Female | English | N/A |
| Phyllis | Female | German | N/A |
| Phyllis | Female | Greek Mythology | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
1. Phyllis, KY |
| 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 "PHYLLIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Czech | Ženské Jméno (Esther, Hilary, Lena, Nora). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | Φύλλισ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | yllisphay филлис. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"PHYLLIS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Phileia, Phillies, phllips, phylis, phylisan, Phyliss, Phyllan, phylli, phyllus, Phyllyp. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-l-l-p-s-y" | |
-2 letters: hills, hilly, pills, shill, shily, silly, slily, spill, sylph, yills. | |
-3 letters: hill, hips, hyps, ills, illy, lily, lips, lisp, phis, pill, pily, pish, ship, sill, slip, syli, syph, yill, yips. | |
-4 letters: hip, his, hyp, ill, lip, lis, phi, pis, ply, psi, shy, sip, sly, spy, yip. | |
-5 letters: hi, is, li, pi, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-l-l-p-s-y" | |
+1 letter: plushily. | |
+2 letters: aphyllies, lumpishly, phyllites, phylloids, splashily, sylphlike. | |
+3 letters: blimpishly, lyophilise, phyllaries, physically. | |
+4 letters: lyophilised, lyophilises, lyophilizes, mesophyllic, microphylls, phyllotaxis, psychically, spherically. | |
+5 letters: apophyllites, lyophilising, lyophilizers, phyllotaxies, podophyllins, seraphically, spheroidally, sprightfully, worshipfully. | |
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