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Definition: PUT-OFF |
PUT-OFFNoun1. A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse. |
Date "PUT-OFF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
| "PUT-OFF" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PUT-OFF" is used about 7 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PUT-OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 投入 (PUT, Putting, Put-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forsinket opdatering (postponed update, put-off update). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitgesteld bijwerken (postponed update, put-off update). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lykätty päivitys (postponed update, put-off update). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mise jour différée (put-off update). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verzögerte Fortschreibung (postponed update, put-off update), verzögerte Aktualisierung (postponed update, put-off update). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναβεβλημένη ενημέρωση (postponed update, put-off update). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aggiornamento differito (postponed update, put-off update). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 두십시" 떨어 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ut-offpay vestuário (apparel, attire, attirement, clothes, clothing, come-off, costume, ensemble, fig, garment, get-up, investiture, raiment, stalking-horse, tog, toggery, vestment, vesture), maneirismo (come-off, courtliness, gimmick, preciosity), habilidade (ability, accomplishments, acquaintance, acquirement, address, adroitness, art, asset, cleverness, come-off, competence, competency, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, dexterity, diplomacy, dodge, dodgery, facility, genius, gimmick, hand, ingenuity, knack, know-how, neatness, savvy, science, shift, skill, tact, trick), artifício (artifice, claptrap, come-off, device, fetch, flam, fraud, gimmick, inventiveness, maneuver, manoeuvre, practice, scheme, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, trickery). (various references) actualización diferida (postponed update, put-off update). (various references) uppskjuten uppdatering (postponed update, put-off update). (various references) sự hoân lại, sự để chậm lại sự lảng tránh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: putoff. | |
| Words within the letters "f-f-o-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: pouff. | |
-2 letters: pfft, pouf, pout, puff, toff, tofu, tuff. | |
-3 letters: fop, fou, off, oft, opt, out, pot, put, top, tup, upo. | |
-4 letters: of, op, to, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-f-o-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: putoffs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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