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ROMPING

Definitions: ROMPING

ROMPING

Adjective

1. Inclined to romp; indulging in romps.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Romp

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ROMPING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)


Crosswords: ROMPING

English words defined with "ROMPING": Rantipole, Rompingly. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ROMPING": HOYDONTOMBOY. (references)

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Use in Literature: ROMPING

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Girls demure and romping.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: ROMPING

"ROMPING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.59% of the time. "ROMPING" is used about 27 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)92.59%2569,787
Noun (singular)7.41%2245,945
                    Total100.00%27N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ROMPING

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

rabbit romping vibrator

7

romping

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ROMPING

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

Chinese 

  

嬉戏 (Frolicked, Frolicking, Playful, romp, Romped, sportive). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

riehakka (boisterous), riehakas (boisterous), raisu (boisterous, frisky). (various references)

   

German

  

tollend. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ompingray

   

Scottish

  

starachd. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stojande. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ROMPING

Derivations

Words ending with "ROMPING": tromping. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ROMPING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gromphing, Rampino, rolming, roming, rompings, rompono, rompping, Rompun, roppongi. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "ROMPING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ROMPING" (pronounced rÄ"mping)
5-Ä" m p i ngchomping, stomping, swamping.
4-m p i ngantidumping, bumping, camping, clamping, clumping, cramping, crimping, damping, dumping, jumping, lamping, limping, lumping, pimping, pumping, ramping, revamping, scrimping, skimping, slumping, stamping, stumping, tamping, thumping, tramping.
3-p i ngaping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, burping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chopping, clapping, clipping, coping, copping, creeping, cropping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, lopping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, ripping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stepping, stereotyping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, taping, tapping, tipping, topping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: ROMPING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-m-n-o-p-r"

-1 letter: moping, poring, roping.

-2 letters: gipon, giron, groin, minor, oping, orpin, pingo, pirog, primo, prion, prong.

-3 letters: gimp, girn, giro, gorp, grim, grin, grip, inro, iron, morn, noir, nori, norm, ping, pion, pirn, pong, porn, prig, prim, prog, prom, ring, romp.

-4 letters: gin, gip, gor, imp, ion, mig, mir, mog, mon, mop, mor, nim, nip.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-m-n-o-p-r"
 

+1 letter: morphing, tromping.

 

+2 letters: comparing, compering, imploring, importing, improving, pogroming, promising, promoting, prompting.

 

+3 letters: angiosperm, comparting, compeering, comporting, comprising, comprizing, empowering, impowering, parmigiano, performing, preforming, premolding, programing, promulging, reimposing, sporangium.

 

+4 letters: angiosperms, carpogonium, compressing, homeporting, imploringly, importuning, impregnator, imprisoning, improvising, monographic, morphogenic, nomographic, outtrumping, overpumping, pelargonium, phonogramic, pockmarking, postforming, postmarking, proclaiming, prognathism, programings, programming, promenading, promisingly, recompiling, recomposing, recomputing, reemploying, reimporting, semaphoring, slipforming, spermagonia, sporogonium, temporising, temporizing, unpromising.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ROMPING


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

52 4F 4D 50 49 4E 47

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)

01010010 01001111 01001101 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#79 &#77 &#80 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 004F 004D 0050 0049 004E 0047

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

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

52494750434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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