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"SCOTTY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a Scotsman", "a tattoo". |
Date "SCOTTY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
"SCOTTY" is a common misspelling or typo for: Scottie, snotty, spotty. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | An acute keratoconjunctivitis, highly contagious, characterized by edema of the eyelids and the conjunctiva, subepithelial corneal infiltration, petechial hemorrhages, hyperemia and involvement of the regional lymph nodes, considered to be due to a virus. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Look Scotty, I know what you're going through. (Teen Wolf; writing credit: Joseph Loeb III; Matthew Weisman) And Scotty beamed them to the Klingon ship, where there would be no tribble at all! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) We did some musical reunion specials in the 22-hundreds, but the guy who played Scotty had trouble yodeling. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) Oh beam me up, Scotty. (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime García Estrada) | |
Lyrics | Gypsy Scotty is driving his big long yellow car (Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First); performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp and George Green) In a hand painted night, me and Gypsy Scotty are partners (Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First); performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp and George Green) In the bone colored dawn, me and Gypsy Scotty are singin' (Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First); performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp and George Green) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Scotty of the Scouts (1926) Scotty! Beam me up (1996) Scotty & Co. (1979) | |
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Books | |
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| "SCOTTY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.46% of the time. "SCOTTY" is used about 26 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 88.46% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SCOTTY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Scotty | First name Male | 13,000 | 593 |
| Scotty | Last name | 170 | 49,494 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "SCOTTY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a Scotsman", "a tattoo". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "SCOTTY." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Scot | Male | English | Scott |
| Scott | Male | English | N/A |
| Scottie | Male | English | Scott |
| Scotty | Male | English | Scott |
| Scot | Male | Scottish | Scott |
| Scott | Male | Scottish | N/A |
| Scottie | Male | Scottish | Scott |
| Scotty | Male | Scottish | Scott |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SCOTTY": scotty-dog. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "SCOTTY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Ukrainian | Ñкоті, шотландець (caledonian, scot, scotchman, scotsman). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"SCOTTY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schottky, Scolty, scooty, Scotta, scrotty, Sketty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-o-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: cost, cosy, cots, coys, cyst, scot, tost, tots, toys. | |
-3 letters: cos, cot, coy, sot, soy, sty, tot, toy. | |
-4 letters: os, oy, so, to, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-o-s-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: otocyst. | |
+2 letters: boycotts, cryostat, otocysts. | |
+3 letters: astrocyte, contrasty, cryostats, cystolith, osteocyte, otocystic, statocyst. | |
+4 letters: astrocytes, astrocytic, asymptotic, athrocytes, blastocyst, boycotters, castratory, chatoyants, cocatalyst, constantly, cryostatic, cystoliths, cytologist, cytostatic, cytotoxins, heterocyst, histiocyte, hypostatic, lectotypes, mastectomy, nematocyst, osteocytes, statocysts, thymocytes, trichocyst. | |
+5 letters: astrocytoma, blastocysts, cocatalysts, countryseat, cytologists, cytostatics, dictyostele, domesticity, gametocytes, gastrectomy, hepatocytes, heterocysts, histiocytes, histiocytic, historicity, hydrostatic, isotonicity, masticatory, nematocysts, schistosity, steatopygic, stereotypic, stichomythy, stratocracy, symptomatic, trichocysts. | |
| 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. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Names: Derived from 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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