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Definition: SMEARY |
SMEARYAdjective1. Tending to smear or soil; adhesive; viscous. |
Date "SMEARY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Crosswords: SMEARY |
| English words defined with "SMEARY": Dauby. (references) |
| "SMEARY" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SMEARY" is used about 8 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
dreamy gray smeary | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SMEARY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pis (begrimed, dirty, messy, piggishly), i njollosur (smudgy, spotted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | зацапан (smudgy), замърсен (grimy, shop-soiled), лепкав (adherent, adhesive, clammy, clayey, gluey, glutinous, gluttonous, gooey, gummy, limy, sticky, stiff, stringy, tacky, tenacious, treacly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zašpinìný (spotted), mazlavý (gooey, soggy, sticky), mazavý, lepkavý (adhesive, clammy, gluey, glutinous, gooey, limy, sticky, tacky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | poisseux (smudgy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schmierig (dirty, filthy, greasily, greasy, grimy, gungy, lubricious, oily, oozy, sleazy, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smudgy, unwholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | maszatos (begrimed, dirty, grimy, snotty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | untuoso (fat, fatty, greasy, lubricious, oily, sleazy, smarmy, smooth, smudgy, unctious, unctuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earysmay gorduroso (adipose, fat, fatty, greasy, lardy, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, slick, tallowy, unctuous), com manchas ou nódoas, besuntado (dirty). (various references) unsuros (fat, fatty, fattyoleous, greasy, oily, sleek, sticky, unctuous), murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy). (various references) грязный (crummy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, frowsy, frowzy, grimy, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mourning, mucky, muddy, puddly, scruffy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, smudgy, sordid, squalid, unclean, vicious). (various references) umašćen, koji masti. (various references) graso (fat, fatty, greasy). (various references) smetig (dauby, unctuous). (various references) yağlı (adipose, fat, fatty, greasy, oiled, oily, oleaginous, sebaceous, tallowy, unctuous), lekeli (blotchy, clouded, dappled, mackled, maculated, smudgy, splashy, splotchy, spotted, spotty, stained, stigmatic, tainted). (various references) в'язкий (adherent, clammy, glutinous, ropy, tough), жирний (adipose, bacony, beefy, bloated, creamy, fat, fatty, greasy, lardy, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, yolky), брудний (bawdy, beastly, black, chatty, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, greasy, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly, unclean). (various references) vấy bẩn, dơ bẩn l m bẩn nói xấu, có dấu bẩn, bôi nhọ (aspersive, aspersory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SMEARY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sameri, Seary, seery, sematary, semear, seray, sheary, Sleary, smarby, smarn, smarv, smea, smer, smery, sweary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: eyras, mares, marse, maser, reams, resay, sayer, seamy, smear, years. | |
-2 letters: aery, ares, arms, army, arse, ayes, ears, easy, eras, eyas, eyra, maes, mare, mars, mays, mesa, rams, rase, rays, ream, rems, ryas, ryes, same, seam, sear, sera, yams, yare, year, yeas. | |
-3 letters: are, arm, ars, aye, ays, ear, ems, era, ers, mae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: mastery, streamy, yammers. | |
+2 letters: aneurysm, daymares, emissary, kerygmas, lamasery, lampreys, masterly, mayoress, midyears, mislayer, ramosely, rosemary, seminary, spermary, sycamore. | |
+3 letters: aneurysms, asymmetry, claymores, cymbalers, daydreams, doomsayer, empyreans, erythemas, gossamery, gramaryes, haymakers, hymnaries, karyosome, malarkeys, manslayer, martyries, maryjanes, miserably, mislayers, monastery, mydriases, oysterman, paymaster, perimysia, pyodermas, salarymen, spymaster, supremacy, sycamores, tyramines, vestryman, yammerers, yarmelkes, yarmulkes, yawmeters. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4D 45 41 52 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -- . .- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001101 01000101 01000001 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S M E A R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004D 0045 0041 0052 0059 |
| 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)534739355259 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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