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Definition: PRANCING |
PRANCINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Prance |
Date "PRANCING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
Crosswords: PRANCING |
| Etymologies containing "PRANCING": Prance. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ha! I could just see Little and Large prancing around Sheffield with their widges hanging out. Now that would be worth 10 quid (The Full Monty; writing credit: Simon Beaufoy) Yeah, okay, sorry, but I just had no idea that gods were such prancing lightweights (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I suppose next she'll have you prancing around in hot pants and burning your brassier (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) No, helping those in need's my job, and working up a load of sexual tension and prancing away like a magnificent poof is truly thanks enough (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dirty Prancing (1987) | |
Song Titles | Prancing (performing artist: Icky (Ike Turner) Renrut) | |
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| "PRANCING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "PRANCING" is used about 60 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 80% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 60 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
horse prancing | 9 |
prancing pony | 7 |
ferrari horse prancing | 6 |
prancing | 3 |
j prancing settes | 2 |
antelope prancing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PRANCING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | نطنطة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | наперен (flashy, jaunty, perky, roistering, swanky), надут (bombastic, conceited, consequential, coxcombical, declamatory, florid, grandiloquent, haughty, high-blown, highfaluting, important, inflated, magniloquent, mandarin, mouthy, orotund, overblown, pompous, portentous, puffy, sidy, solemn, sounding, stilted, swelling, swollen, theatrical, tumid, uppish, uppity), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi). (various references) | |
French | sautillement. (various references) | |
German | paradierend (flaunting). (various references) | |
Hungarian | táncolás (dancing), ágaskodás (prance). (various references) | |
Manx | joltagh (prancer, traversing, weaving). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ancingpray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | que faz cabriolas. (various references) | |
Russian | скачущий (saltatory), гарцевать гарцующий, важный (consequential, donnish, earnest, first rate, grave, humungous, important, momentous, of consequence, of great moment, of importance, of significance, portentous, serious, significant, substantial, weighty). (various references) | |
Scottish | gruilleamach. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | propinjući. (various references) | |
Swedish | dansande (dancing). (various references) | |
Welsh | llamsachus (frisky). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Nahum Chapter 3, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Fwnh mastigwn kai fwnh seismou trocwn kai ippou diwkontoV kai armatoV anabrassontoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Vox flagelli et vox impetus rotae et equi frementis et quadrigae ferventis equitis ascendentis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Voice of scourge, and voice of bir of wheel, and of hors makynge noyse, and of a foure horsid cart brennynge, and of kniyt steyinge vp, and of shynynge swerd, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The noise of the whip, and the noise of thundering wheels; horses rushing and war-carriages jumping, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Nahum Chapter 3, Verse 2 |
| Albanian | Kërcet kamxhiku, zhurmë shurdhuese rrotash, kuajsh që vrapojnë dhe qerresh që hovin, |
| Cebuano | Ang hinagiyos sa lapdos, ug ang mga kasaba sa mga ligid nga nanagkagalkal, ug sa nanaglukso-lukso nga mga kabayo, ug ang nanag-untol-untol nga mga carro, |
| Croatian | Slušajte! Pucaju bièem! Slušajte! tropot toèkova! Konji upropanj, kola poskakuju. |
| Danish | Hør Smæld og raslende Vogne, jagende Heste, |
| Dutch | Er is het geklap der zweep, en het geluid van het bulderen der raderen; en de paarden stampen, en de wagens springen op. |
| Finnish | Kuule! Ruoskat läiskyvät, pyörät ryskyvät, hevoset kiitävät, vaunut hyppivät, |
| French | On entend le bruit du fouet, Le bruit des roues, Le galop des chevaux, Le roulement des chars. |
| German | Denn da wird man hören die Geißeln klappen und die Räder rasseln und die Rosse jagen und die Wagen rollen. |
| Haitian Creole | Koute bri fwèt kach yo, bri wou cha yo k'ap woule vini. Koute bri chwal yo k'ap galope, bri cha lagè yo k'ap kouri vini. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dengarlah lecutan cambuk dan derak-derik roda, derap lari kuda dan guncangan kereta. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Adalah bunyi cemeti dan keretak-keretuk bunyi segala jenteranya. Segala kuda berentak-entakkan kakinya dan segala ratapan ramai bunyinya. |
| Italian | Sibilo di frusta, fracasso di ruote, scalpitio di cavalli, cigolio di carri, |
| Maori | Ko te haruru o te whiu, ko te ngaehe o nga wira e keke ana; ko nga hoiho e takatakahi ana, ko nga hariata e tarapekepeke ana; |
| Norwegian | Smellende svepe og durende hjul og jagende hest og hoppende vogn, |
| Portuguese | Eis o estrépito do açoite, e o estrondo das rodas, os cavalos que curveteiam e os carros que saltam; |
| Rumanian | Auziyi pocnetul biciului, uruitul royilor, tropqitul cailor, wi durduitul carelor! |
| Russian | уМЩЫОЩ ИМП БОШЕ 'ЙЮБ Й УФХЛ ЛТХФСЭЙИУС ЛПМЕУ, ТЦБОЙЕ ЛПОС Й ЗТПИПФ УЛБЮХЭЕК ЛПМЕУОЙ"Щ. |
| Spanish | Viene sonido de látigo, estruendo de ruedas, caballos galopando, carros que rebotan, |
| Swedish | Hör, piskor smälla! Hör, vagnshjul dåna! Hästar jaga fram, och vagnar rulla åstad. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"PRANCING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pancying, Pankanj, pracing, prancings, pranking, Pranting, pronking, rancin, rancing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PRANCING" (pronounced pra"nsing) |
| 5 | -a" n s i ng | advancing, dancing, enhancing, financing, glancing, Lancing, refinancing, romancing. |
| 4 | -n s i ng | announcing, balancing, bouncing, commencing, condensing, conferencing, convincing, denouncing, dispensing, distancing, expensing, experiencing, fencing, freelancing, influencing, lensing, licensing, mensing, mincing, outdistancing, pouncing, pronouncing, rebalancing, referencing, renouncing, rinsing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, silencing, teleconferencing, trouncing, unconvincing, videoconferencing, wincing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | annexing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, affixing, amassing, assessing, basing, blessing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, compressing, confessing, conversing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispersing, displacing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enticing, erasing, expressing, facing, faxing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, lapsing, leasing, loosing, massing, menacing, messing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, practicing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pulsing, racing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, reducing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, sacrificing, seducing, servicing, showcasing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, unceasing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-n-p-r" | |
-1 letter: carping, craning, craping. | |
-2 letters: arcing, caning, caring, pacing, paring, pinang, racing, raping. | |
-3 letters: acing, aping, cairn, carpi, cigar, garni, grain, naric, panic, pinna, prang. | |
-4 letters: agin, airn, cain, carn, carp, crag, crap, gain, girn, gnar, gran, grin, grip, narc, nipa, pain, pair, pang, pian, pica, pina, ping, pirn, prig, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-n-p-r" | |
+3 letters: chaperoning, picarooning, precleaning, preenacting, pregnancies, ropedancing. | |
+4 letters: apprenticing, caparisoning, carpentering, copartnering, interspacing, precanceling, prefinancing, repugnancies, ropedancings. | |
+5 letters: anthropogenic, incorporating, nonpracticing, preannouncing, precancelling, precautioning, preganglionic, relandscaping, transpiercing. | |
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