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PODGE

Definitions: PODGE

PODGE

Noun

1. Porridge.

2. A puddle; a plash.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Podge \Podge\, noun. [Compare to German patsche puddle, mire.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: PODGE

Specialty definitions using "PODGE": HODGE PODGE. (references)

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Modern Usage: PODGE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Hodge Podge Lodge (1970)

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

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Commercial Usage: PODGE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hodge Podge (reference)

  • Hodge Podge Book (reference)

  • Modge and Podge (reference)

  • Pi a Hodge Podge of the Letters, Papers, and Addresses Written During the Last 60 Years: A Hodge-Podge of the Letters, Papers, and Addresses Written) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: PODGE

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Peter F. Dailey in the big musical comedy, Hodge, Podge & Co. adapted from the German by Geo. V. Hobart ; lyrics by Walter H. Ford ; music by John W. Bratton. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: PODGE

"PODGE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "PODGE" is used about 5 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)60%3202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)20%1339,140
Noun (proper)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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

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Expression: PODGE

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "PODGE": hodge-podge.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PODGE

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

mod podge

40

modge podge

31

hodge podge

25

podge

6

podge rodge

5

hodge lodge podge

4

craft mod podge

4

corner hodge podge

3

craft modge podge

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

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Modern Translations: PODGE

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

Portuguese

  

bem instalado (snug, well appointed, well found). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

papazjanija (gallimaufry, hash, hodgepodge, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, omnium gatherum, pepper pot, salmagundi). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PODGE

Derivations

Words ending with "PODGE": hodgepodge. (additional references)

Words containing "PODGE": hodgepodges. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "PODGE"

Words ending with "odge": Rodge. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PODGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-o-p"

-1 letter: doge, dope, oped.

-2 letters: doe, dog, ego, ged, god, ode, ope, ped, peg, pod.

-3 letters: de, do, ed, go, od, oe, op, pe.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-o-p"
 

+1 letter: groped, ponged.

 

+2 letters: galoped, glopped, grouped, megapod, pedagog, pledgor, podgier, progged, pronged, splodge, sponged.

 

+3 letters: anglepod, deponing, deposing, dogeship, dognaped, dognaper, dragrope, galloped, galopade, geepound, gossiped, hedgehop, megapode, megapods, oppugned, pedagogs, pedagogy, pedology, pegboard, pledgeor, pledgors, ploughed, podgiest, pogromed, porridge, portaged, poundage, prograde, prologed, sheepdog, splodged, splodges.

 

+4 letters: anglepods, decoupage, deploring, deploying, deporting, deprogram, dogeships, dognapers, dognapped, dognapper, dragropes, epilogued, exploding, gallopade, galopades, geepounds, godparent, gossipped, guidepost, gunpowder, hedgehops, ideograph, megapodes, paragoned, pedagogic, pedagogue, pedogenic, pedologic, pegboards, pledgeors, pondering, porridges, poundages, powdering, precoding, prodigies, prognosed, programed, prologued, prolonged, promulged, prorogued, pterygoid, regrouped, ridgepole, sheepdogs, supergood, ungrouped.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PODGE


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

50 4F 44 47 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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)

01010000 01001111 01000100 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#68 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0044 0047 0045

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

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

5049384139

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Non-English Dictionaries with "PODGE"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportuguês, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeservo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationinglês, engleski, englez, engleski jezik
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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