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Definition: Shoehorn |
ShoehornNoun1. A device used for easing the foot into a shoe. Verb1. Make fit for a specific purpose. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shoehorn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
Synonym: ShoehornSynonym: tailor (v). (additional references) |
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| "Shadow" by M.Jander Commentary: "Our shoehorn and its shadow." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Shoehorn" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Shoehorn" is used about 10 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 (infinitive) | 60% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 30% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "shoehorn": use shoehorn. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shoehorn": shoehorn-like. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
shoehorn | 13 |
long shoehorn | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "shoehorn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | نعل (insole, shoe, sock, sole, tread). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обувалка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鞋抽. (various references) | |
Czech | lžíce na obouvání. (various references) | |
Farsi | پاشنه کش کفش , پاشنه کش بکاربردن . (various references) | |
French | chausse-pied (shoe horn). (various references) | |
German | Schuhanzieher (shoe horn), Schuhlöffel. (various references) | |
Greek | κόκκαλο για παπούτσια, υποδηματοσύρτησ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כף הנעל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | cipőkanál (shoe-horn). (various references) | |
Italian | calzascarpe (shoe horn), calzante (well-fitting). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 靴箆 , 靴篦 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くつべら. (various references) | |
Korean | 구둣주걱. (various references) | |
Manx | eairk braagey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oehornshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | calçadeira (shoe-horn, tamper). (various references) | |
Russian | рожок (cornicle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kašika za obuvanje cipela. (various references) | |
Spanish | calzador (shoe-horn, shoe-lift). (various references) | |
Swedish | skohorn. (various references) | |
Thai | ที่ช้อนรองเท้า. (various references) | |
Turkish | kerata (beggar, bootjack, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallawag, sweep), ayakkabı çekeceği, çekecek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ріжок (angle, bottle, feeder). (various references) | |
Welsh | siesbin, siasbi, sesbin. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shoehorn": shoehorned, shoehorning, shoehorns. (additional references) | |
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"Shoehorn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Coehorn, Shoichiro, showhorn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shoehorn" (pronounced shuw"hô'rn) |
| 4 | -h ô' r n | bighorn, bullhorn, Hartshorn, Longhorn, pronghorn. |
| 3 | -ô' r n | firstborn, airborne, Buckthorn, hawthorn, inborn, popcorn, seaborne, shopworn, unicorn, waterborne. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-h-n-o-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: onshore. | |
-2 letters: herons, honers, honors, nooser, nosher, senhor, sooner. | |
-3 letters: herns, heron, heros, hoers, honer, hones, honor, horns, horse, hosen, noose, roose, senor, shoer, shone, shoon, shore, shorn, snore. | |
-4 letters: eons, erns, eros, hehs, hens, hern, hero, hers, hoer, hoes, hone, hons, horn, hose, noes, nose, nosh, ones, oohs, ores, resh, rhos, roes, rose. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-h-n-o-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: shoehorns. | |
+2 letters: horehounds, shoehorned. | |
+3 letters: hydrophones, shoehorning. | |
+4 letters: ethnohistory, horseshoeing, siphonophore, thoroughness. | |
+5 letters: ethnohistoric, heterophonies, neighborhoods, phonographers, phonographies, photofinisher, phytohormones, rhombohedrons, siphonophores. | |
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