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Typhoid Mary

Definition: Typhoid Mary

Typhoid Mary

Noun

1. United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Typhoid Mary

Synonyms: Mallon (n), Mary Mallon (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Typhoid Mary

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm sure Typhoid Mary was a very nice person too when you saw her socially. (The Fly; writing credit: David Cronenberg; George Langelaan)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Typhoid Mary

DomainTitle

Books

  • An Alarming History of Famous and Difficult Patients: Amusing Medical Anecdotes from Typhoid Mary to FDR (reference)

  • Daredevil Legends: Typhoid Mary (reference)

  • The Ballad of Typhoid Mary (reference)

  • Typhoid Mary (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Typhoid Mary

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

typhoid mary

65
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Anagrams: Typhoid Mary

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-h-i-m-o-p-r-t-y-y"

-3 letters: myopathy, myriapod, podiatry.

-4 letters: atrophy, dimorph, hardtop, morphia, parotid, phytoid, pyramid, thyroid, topiary, tripody, typhoid.

-5 letters: adroit, armpit, daimyo, diatom, dirham, hairdo, hydria, impart, import, mohair, myopia, myriad, mythoi, optima, parity, parody, thairm, thiram, thoria, torpid, tripod, trophy.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-h-i-m-o-p-r-t-y-y"
 

+3 letters: cardiomyopathy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Typhoid Mary


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 79 70 68 6F 69 64      4D 61 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01111001 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101001 01100100 00100000 01001101 01100001 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#121 &#112 &#104 &#111 &#105 &#100 &#32 &#77 &#97 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0079 0070 0068 006F 0069 0064      004D 0061 0072 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54918274817570247678491

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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