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PUMY

Definition: PUMY

PUMY

Adjective

1. Large and rounded.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PUMY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Etymology: Pumy \Pu"my\, adjective. [Compare to Prov. English pummer big, large, and English pomey pommel.]. (Websters 1913)


Derivations: PUMY

Derivations

Words ending with "PUMY": spumy. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "PUMY"

Words rhyming with "PUMY" (pronounced 'Pu"my'): Adesmy, Army, Blosmy, Chasmy, Clammy, Crummy, Gemmy, Glummy, gummy, jimmy, mammy, Omy, Ophthalmy, Plummy, Prismy, Rammy, scummy, shammy, shimmy, Stemmy, tammy, Whimmy, Xerophthalmy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PUMY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "m-p-u-y"

-1 letter: ump, yum, yup.

-2 letters: mu, my, um, up.

 Words containing the letters "m-p-u-y"
 

+1 letter: bumpy, dumpy, humpy, jumpy, lumpy, plumy, spumy.

 

+2 letters: clumpy, frumpy, glumpy, grumpy, gypsum, murphy, phylum, plummy, rumply, stumpy.

 

+3 letters: bumpily, crumply, dumpily, grumphy, gypsums, jumpily, lumpily, plumply, shlumpy.

 

+4 letters: frumpily, glumpily, grumpily, hypogeum, impunity, impurely, impurity, mudpuppy, multiply, plumbery, psyllium, puppydom, pygidium, pyxidium, sphygmus, trumpery, tympanum.

 

+5 letters: ampullary, bumpkinly, epimysium, eponymous, impiously, lumpishly, multicopy, paramylum, perfumery, polygonum, pompously, pseudonym, psylliums, pterygium, pulmonary, puppydoms, puromycin, pycnidium, pyrethrum, subphylum, sumptuary, supremacy, supremely, sympodium, symposium, tympanums, uropygium.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PUMY


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

50 55 4D 59

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

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

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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 01010101 01001101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#85 &#77 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0055 004D 0059

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

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

50554759

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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