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RODDY

Definitions: RODDY

RODDY

Adjective

1. Ruddy.

2. Full of rods or twigs.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"RODDY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "famous power".


Modern Usage: RODDY

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Adventures with Kanga Roddy (1998)

Song Titles

Stronger Than Dirt (performing artist: Ted and the Talltops Roddy)

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

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Specialty Definition: Roddy Radiation

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Roddy "Radiation" Byers played guitar for The Specials, as well as many rockabilly bands such as the Bonediggers and the Tearjerkers. Currently Roddy is in the Skabilly Rebels, a band that mixes ska rhythms with rockabilly.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Roddy Radiation."

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Commercial Usage: RODDY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend (4 Cassettes Read by Roddy McDowall) (reference)

  • No Mean City?: The Image of Dublin in the Novels of Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle and Val Mulkerns (Aachen British and American Studies, Vol. 10) (reference)

  • Reading Roddy Doyle (Irish Studies (Syracuse Univ Pr)) (reference)

  • Roddy Doyle Boxed Set (reference)

  • Roddy the Rooster (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: RODDY

"RODDY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 89.47% of the time. "RODDY" is used about 76 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 (proper)89.47%6840,606
Adjective (general or positive)10.53%8124,375
                    Total100.00%76N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: RODDY

The following table summarizes the usage of "RODDY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
RoddyLast name2,0004,865
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: RODDY

"RODDY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "famous power".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "RODDY."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
RodMaleEnglishRoderick
RoddyMaleEnglishRoderick
RodericMaleEnglishRoderick
RoderickMaleEnglishN/A
RodrigueMaleFrenchRoderick
RodrigoMaleItalianRoderick
RurikMaleRussianRoderick
RodinaFemaleScottishRoderick
RodrigoMaleSpanishRoderick
RhydderchMaleWelshRoderick
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RODDY

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

roddy piper

110

pat roddy

4

rod roddy

83

biography doyle roddy

4

rowdy roddy piper

83

roddy woomble

4

roddy mcdowall

35

lee roddy

4

roddy doyle

30

picture piper roddy rowdy

3

roddy mcdowell

26

dennis roddy

3

ranch roddy

21

club golf ranch roddy

3

roddy frame

13

discography frame roddy

3

mancuso roddy

12

roddy mccorley

3

roddy

11

fishing reel roddy

3

golf ranch roddy

10

jones roddy

3

price right rod roddy

9

pipper roddy

3

report roddy

9

hunter roddy

3

ranch roddy tree

7

rob roddy

3

bottum roddy

7

big roddy

3

hbo piper roddy

7

mccaskill roddy

3

roddy ranch golf course

6

1986 piper roddy

3

derek roddy

6

reel roddy

2

picture piper roddy

5

doll roddy

2

big brother roddy

5

piper real roddy sports

2

piper roddy rowdy wwe

4

piper roddy tape video

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

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Modern Translations: RODDY

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

Russian 

  

of Roderick одди. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RODDY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-o-r-y"

-1 letter: dory.

-2 letters: dor, dry, odd, rod, yod.

-3 letters: do, od, or, oy, yo.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-o-r-y"
 

+2 letters: doddery, dodgery, hydroid.

 

+3 letters: additory, dockyard, dooryard, dotardly, hydroids, overdyed, sordidly.

 

+4 letters: bodyguard, destroyed, dockyards, dooryards, dromedary, hydroxide, joyridden, underbody.

 

+5 letters: bodyguards, bodysurfed, corduroyed, dedicatory, dehydrator, dendrology, disorderly, doomsdayer, downwardly, hydrolyzed, hydroxides, keyboarded, redeployed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RODDY


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

52 4F 44 44 59

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)

01010010 01001111 01000100 01000100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#79 &#68 &#68 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 004F 0044 0044 0059

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

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

5249383859

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Names: Derived from
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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