TATTOOING

Definition: TATTOOING

TATTOOING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Tattoo

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "TATTOOING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Specialty Definitions: TATTOOING

Domain	Definitions
Fine Arts	Indelebile markings in the skin, arranged in decorative patterns. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: TATTOOING

English words defined with "TATTOOING": tattoo ♦ Wild Irishman. (references)

Specialty definitions using "TATTOOING": coal miners'dermatitis, colliers'stripes. (references)

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Modern Usage: TATTOOING

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Oh please she's a heartbeat away from tattooing your name on her ass (Center Stage; writing credit: Carol Heikkinen)
Movie/TV Titles	In a Japanese Tattooing Parlor (1901)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: TATTOOING

Domain	Title
Books	Return of the Tribal: A Celebration of Body Adornment: Piercing, Tattooing, Scarification, Body Painting (reference) Moko: The Art & History of Maori Tattooing (reference) Moko: Maori Tattooing in the Twentieth Century (reference) Body Marks: Tattooing, Piercing, and Scarification (Single Titles) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: TATTOOING

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Use in Literature: TATTOOING

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TATTOOING

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Data on exposure risks from tattooing or piercing in the United States are sparse. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TATTOOING

"TATTOOING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "TATTOOING" is used about 15 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 (-ing form)	53.33%	8	124,375
Noun (singular)	26.67%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	13.33%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	6.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TATTOOING

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
tattooing	434
cosmetic tattooing	63
history of tattooing	21
eyebrow tattooing	21
marcs tattooing	20
tattooing supply	19
canada tattooing	17
female genital tattooing	16
bme tattooing	16
tattooing equipment	16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: TATTOOING

Language		Translations for "TATTOOING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		tatovering. (various references)

Dutch		tatoeering. (various references)

Finnish		tatuointi (tattoo). (various references)

French		tatouage (tattoo). (various references)

German		tätowierung (tattoo), tätowierend. (various references)

Greek		σήμανση (carriageway marking, delineator, labeling, labelling, mark, marking, markup, mark-up, navigation mark, road marking, seamark, signage, signposting, signs, traffic signing, traffic signs, visual aid, visual aid to navigatio). (various references)

Hungarian		tetováló tű (tattooing-needle). (various references)

Italian		tatuaggio (tattoo). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		彫物 (carving, engraving, sculpture), 彫り物 (carving, engraving, sculpture). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほりもの (carving, engraving, sculpture). (various references)

Pig Latin		attooingtay.(various references)

Portuguese		tatuagem (tattoo). (various references)

Romanian		tatuare. (various references)

Russian		татуировать татуировка. (various references)

Spanish		tatuaje (tattoo). (various references)

Swedish		tatuering (tattoo). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: TATTOOING

Misspellings
	"TATTOOING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tatooing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "TATTOOING"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "TATTOOING" (pronounced tatuw"ing)
4	-t uw" i ng	stewing.
3	-uw" i ng	accruing, bluing, booing, brewing, canoeing, chewing, cooing, debuting, Dewing, doing, eschewing, hewing, overdoing, pursuing, queuing, redoing, renewing, reviewing, screwing, skewing, spewing, subduing, suing, undoing, viewing, wooing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: TATTOOING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-o-o-t-t-t"
	-2 letters: tatting, tooting, totting.
	-3 letters: gitano, tattoo, toting.
	-4 letters: giant, gonia, ingot, taint, tango, tanto, tigon, titan, tonga.
	-5 letters: agin, agio, agon, anti, gain, gait, gnat, goat, goon, into, iota, naoi, nota, onto, otto, tain, tang, ting, tint, toga, toit, tong, toon, toot.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-o-o-t-t-t"
	+3 letters: autorotating, photostating.
	+4 letters: ghettoization, photostatting, thanatologist.
	+5 letters: ghettoizations, thanatologists.
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