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"SPURS" is a plural of: spur. |
Date "SPURS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Spurs Ripon spurs. The best spurs were made at Ripon, in Yorkshire. "If my spurs be not right Rippon." Ben Jonson: Staple of News. The Battle of Spurs. The battle of Guinnegate, fought in 1513, between Henry VIII. and the Duc de Longueville. So called because the French used their spurs in flight more than their swords in fight. The Battle of the Spurs. The battle of Courtrai, in 1302. So called because the victorious Flemings gathered from the field more than 700 gilt spurs, worn by French nobles slain in the fight. To dish up the spurs. In Scotland, during the times of the Border feuds, when any of the great families had come to the end of their provisions the lady of the house sent up a pair of spurs for the last course, to intimate that it was time to put spurs to the horses and make a raid upon England for more cattle. "He dishes up the spurs in his helpless address, like one of the old Border chiefs with an empty larder."- The Daily Telegraph. To win his spurs. To gain the rank of knighthood. When a man was knighted, the person who dubbed him presented him with a pair of gilt spurs. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Tottenham Hotspur F.C. is a North London Association football team. It is often referred to as 'The Spurs'.The club was formed in 1882 by boys from Hotspur cricket club and from the local grammar school. Originally the club was known as 'Hotspur FC'. In 1884 the club was re-named 'Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Club'.
The club has a long standing rivalry with their North London neighbors Arsenal.
In the 1960-61 season, Spurs became the first team to achieve the league and FA Cup double in the 20th Century.
They are one of only three teams to win the FA Cup in consecutive years since the end of the 19th century, the others being Arsenal and Newcastle.
Honours
- Football League Champions 2
- 1950-51, 1960-61.
- F.A. Cup Winners 8
- 1900-01, 1920-21, 1960-61, 1961-62, 1966-67, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1990-91.
- Football League Cup Winners 3
- 1970-71, 1972-73, 1998-99
- European Cup-Winners' Cup Winners 1
- 1962-63.
- UEFA Cup Winners 2
- 1971-72, 1983-84.
- Football League Division Two Champions 2
- 1919-20, 1949-50.
- F.A.Charity Shield Winners 7
- 1920-21, 1951-52, 1961-62, 1962-63, 1967-68 (joint), 1981-82 (joint), 1991-92 (joint).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tottenham Hotspur F.C.."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Repute | Live, flourish, glitter, flaunt, gain honor, acquire honor; Noun: play first fiddle; (be of importance), bear the palm, bear the bell; lead the way; take precedence, take the wall of; gain laurels, win laurels, gain spurs, gain golden opinions; (approbation); take one's degree, pass one's examination. |
Success | Come off well, come off successful, come off with flying colors; make short work of; take by storm, carry by storm; bear away the bell; win one's wings, win one's spurs, win the battle; win the day, carry the day, gain the day, gain the prize, gain the palm; have the best of it, have it all one's own way, have the game in one's owns hands, have the ball at one's feet, have one on the hop; walk over the course; carry all before one, remain in possession of the field; score a success. |
Velocity | Hurry; (hasten); accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SPURS |
| English words defined with "SPURS": Bicalcarate ♦ fragrant orchid ♦ GAD, genus Habenaria, green plover, Gymnadenia conopsea, Gymnadenia odoratissima ♦ Habenaria, Heeler ♦ Jacana ♦ Kamichi ♦ lapwing, Loriner ♦ peewit ♦ short-spurred fragrant orchid, spar, spur, Spur fowl, Spurless, Spurred, Spurrer, Spurrier, Spur-winged ♦ Terutero. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SPURS": Belted Knight, bit grinder, BIT SHARPENER ♦ DIGGERS ♦ Grebenski Cossacks ♦ KNIFE SETTER ♦ Ripon, RIPPONS ♦ second rigger, Spur, Spur Money, SWITCH INSPECTOR ♦ Windmills. (references) |
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Screenplays | Spoiled by spare spurs. Trying saying that three times fast (El Diablo; writing credit: Tommy Lee Wallace; John Carpenter) | |
Lyrics | No kiddin', gun slingin', spurs hittin' the floor (Cowboy; performing artist: KID ROCK) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Black Spurs (1965) The Groom Wore Spurs (1951) Singin' Spurs (1948) Silver Spurs (1943) Trail of the Silver Spurs (1941) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | He hasn't won his spurs. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | With spurs that jingle jangle jingle. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Spurs and bits in ranch supply store. Alpine, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cavalry tactics, by the darktown horse guards: "Now, win your spurs to-day.". Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Spurs" by Loretta Humble Commentary: "Spurs on the wall." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The priest put spurs to his horse, and fled in great fear |
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Business | Lastly, the relocation of large corporations, such as Bayer, Citibank or Diners Club, to the northern Buenos Aires area also spurs growth in the office furniture sector. (references) | |
Economic History | Luxembourg | Many of the industrial parks are equipped with railway spurs connected to the international networks. (references) |
Costa Rica | The railroad does not function, with the exception of a couple of spurs reactivated by a U.S.-owned banana company. (references) | |
Ghana | Improved local servicing capacity coupled with growth of offshoot activities including shareware, software design, computer graphics, and systems consulting spurs demand. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | A great people flower not from wealth and power, but from a society which spurs them to the fullness of their genius. |
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| "SPURS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 48.48% of the time. "SPURS" is used about 688 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 (plural) | 48.48% | 334 | 15,701 |
| Noun (proper) | 45.86% | 316 | 16,245 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 5.66% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Total | 100.00% | 688 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SPURS": clap spurs to ♦ clap spurs to a horse ♦ clap spurs to one's horse ♦ gain one's spurs ♦ set spurs to one's horse ♦ win one's spurs. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SPURS": Spurs-leeds. | |
Ending with "SPURS": nectar-spurs, poison-spurs, Scum-spurs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SPURS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | وخز الخيل. (various references) | |
French | éperons. (various references) | |
German | spornt an, spornt, spornen (spur, spur on). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sarkantyúba kapja lovát (to clap spurs to one's horse, to put spurs to one's horse, to set spurs to one's horse), megsarkantyúzza lovát (to clap spurs to one's horse, to put spurs to one's horse, to set spurs to one's horse). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ursspay.(various references) | |
Romanian | da pinteni unui cal (clap spurs to a horse), da pinteni calului (clap spurs to one's horse, set spurs to one's horse, spur on). (various references) | |
Spanish | espuelas. (various references) | |
Swedish | sätta sporrarna i (clap spurs to), vinna sina sporrar (win one's spurs). (various references) | |
Turkish | mahmuzlar. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SPURS": cockspurs, hotspurs, larkspurs, longspurs, sandspurs. (additional references) | |
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"SPURS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sapeurs, sauros, saurus, scurs, scurz, sperls, sphur, spours, sprues, spues, spura, spure, spurg, spurm, spurr, sturrs, supr, supres, sursy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SPURS" (pronounced sper"z) |
| 3 | -p er" z | purrs. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "p-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: purs, puss, spur, sups. | |
-2 letters: pur, pus, sup, ups. | |
-3 letters: up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "p-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: purses, sirups, slurps, sprues, sprugs, spurns, spurts, supers, syrups, usurps. | |
+2 letters: pausers, percuss, peruses, poseurs, prussic, pulsars, pulsers, purisms, purists, pursers, pursues, pushers, pussier, sapours, soursop, sprouts, spruces, spurges, stupors, suppers, surpass, surplus, suspire, uprises, upsoars, upstirs. | |
+3 letters: brushups, corpuses, cypruses, disrupts, espouser, hotspurs, outpress, oversups, pastures, perfuses, perusals, perusers, postures, predusks, pressrun, pressure, presumes, primuses, prunuses, punsters, pureness, purposes, pursiest, pursuers, pursuits, pushrods, repousse, repulses, rumpless, rumpuses, sandspur, saporous, scaupers, screwups, scruples, scuppers, sourpuss, soursops, spermous, spirulas, splurges, sporules, spouters, sprucest, spudders, spurious, spurners, spurrers, spurreys, spurries, spurtles, sputters, startups, stirrups, stumpers, subparts, sulphurs, sumpters, sundrops, superset, supersex, superspy, supports, supposer, suppress, supremos, surprise, suspired, suspires, unstraps, upraises, uprisers, uprouses, uprushes, upstairs, upstares, upstarts, upsurges, usurpers. | |
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