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Definition: REBUFFED |
REBUFFEDImperative & past participle1. Of Rebuff |
Date "REBUFFED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1798. (references) |
Crosswords: REBUFFED |
| English words defined with "REBUFFED": jilted ♦ rejected ♦ spurned. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "REBUFFED": misdemeanor. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Ghana | Students reportedly told the school administration, including the headmistress, about the assaults, but they were rebuffed and no action was taken; the teacher has not been arrested. (references) |
Economic History | Ethiopia | The U.S. rebuffed Ethiopia's request for increased military assistance to intensify its fight against the Eritrean secessionist movement and to repel the Somali invasion. (references) |
Haiti | When these efforts were rebuffed and Parliament was seated, Haiti's main bilateral donors announced the end of "business as usual." They moved to re-channel Haitian assistance away from the government and announced they would not support or send observers to the November elections. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society. By misdemeanors he essays to climb Into the aristocracy of crime. O, woe was him! -- with manner chill and grand "Captains of industry" refused his hand, "Kings of finance" denied him recognition And "railway magnates" jeered his low condition. He robbed a bank to make himself respected. They still rebuffed him, for he was detected. S.V. Hanipur |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "REBUFFED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 68.66% of the time. "REBUFFED" is used about 67 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 (past participle) | 68.66% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 31.34% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 67 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "REBUFFED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | '绝 (rebuff, Rebuffing, refusal, Refused, Refusing, rejected, Rejecting, rejection, repudiation). (various references) | ||||
German | zurückgewiesen (rebutted, repelled). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ebuffedray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"REBUFFED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rebuffal, Rebuffat, rebuffer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "REBUFFED" (pronounced rubu"ft or rēbu"ft) |
| 3 | -u" f t | bluffed, cuffed, fluffed, huffed, luffed, puffed, roughed, scuffed, snuffed, stuffed, toughed, tuft. |
| 3 | -u" f t | bluffed, cuffed, fluffed, huffed, luffed, puffed, roughed, scuffed, snuffed, stuffed, toughed, tuft. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: buffered. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-f-f-r-u" | |
-2 letters: buffed, buffer, duffer, rebuff, reffed, ruffed. | |
-3 letters: brede, breed, defer, feued, freed, redub, refed, ruffe. | |
-4 letters: bedu, beef, beer, bred, bree, buff, burd, deer, dere, dree, drub, duff, dure, feed, fere, feud, free, rede, reed, reef, rube, rude, rued, ruff. | |
-5 letters: bed, bee, bud, bur, deb, dee, dub, due, eff, ere, fed, fee, fer, feu, fub, fud, fur, reb, red, ree, ref, rub, rue, urb, urd. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-f-f-r-u" | |
+2 letters: unbuffered. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 42 55 46 46 45 44 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -... ..- ..-. ..-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01000010 01010101 01000110 01000110 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E B U F F E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0042 0055 0046 0046 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5239365540403938 |
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