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WATTLED

Definition: WATTLED

WATTLED

Adjective

1. Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Wattle

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WATTLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

 

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Usage Frequency: WATTLED

"WATTLED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WATTLED" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

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

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Expression: WATTLED

Expressions using "WATTLED": wattled crow wattled honey eater. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "WATTLED": red-wattled.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WATTLED

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

bellbird three wattled

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: WATTLED

Language Translations for "WATTLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i thurur (inwrought, knitted, tressed). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

направен от плет (wattle). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

knobbelhokko (wattled curassow). (various references)

   

French

  

vanneau armé du Senegal (wattled plover), Vanellus senegallus (wattled plover), hocco globuleux (wattled curassow), creatophora cinerea (wattled starling), afribyx senegallus (wattled plover), étourneau coroncule (wattled starling). (various references)

   

German

  

Vanellus senegallus (afribyx senegallus, Vanellus senegallus, wattled plover), Senegalkiebitz (afribyx senegallus, Vanellus senegallus, wattled plover), Lappenstar (creatophora cinerea, wattled starling), Karunkelhokko (wattled curassow), creatophora cinerea (creatophora cinerea, wattled starling), afribyx senegallus (afribyx senegallus, Vanellus senegallus, wattled plover). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καλλεοκαλημάνα (afribyx senegallus, Vanellus senegallus, wattled plover), καλλεοψάρονο (creatophora cinerea, wattled starling), creatophora cinerea (creatophora cinerea, wattled starling), afribyx senegallus (afribyx senegallus, Vanellus senegallus, wattled plover). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vesszõbõl font. (various references)

   

Italian

  

Vanellus senegallus (afribyx senegallus, Vanellus senegallus, wattled plover), storno caruncolato (creatophora cinerea, wattled starling), pavoncella del Senegal (afribyx senegallus, Vanellus senegallus, wattled plover), hocco dai bargigli (wattled curassow), creatophora cinerea (creatophora cinerea, wattled starling), crace dalla Caruncola (wattled curassow), afribyx senegallus (afribyx senegallus, Vanellus senegallus, wattled plover). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

attledway.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

fechado (airless, cabined, close, close-mouthed, covered, fast, inmate, pent, shut, timid, wicker, windless), entrelaçado (wicker). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

плетеный (braided, cane, wicker). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sgath (a wattled door, injure, lop off, prune), fraigh (wattled partition). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

s resom, s pipcima. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

плетений (knit, wickered). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

tagellog (double-chinned). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: WATTLED

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Cephalopterus ornatus penduliger, Cephalopterus penduliger, craticula, craticulam, craticulamque, Crax globulosa, Hoplopterus indicus, RM:vanel dal pe cotschen. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: WATTLED

Derivations

Words ending with "WATTLED": twattled. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: WATTLED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-t-t-w"

-1 letter: wattle.

-2 letters: dealt, delta, dwelt, lated, latte, lawed, tawed, waled, weald.

-3 letters: awed, dale, date, dawt, deal, delt, lade, late, lead, lewd, tael, tale, tate, teal, teat, tela, twae, wade, wale, watt, weal, weld, welt.

-4 letters: ale, alt, ate, att, awe, awl, dal, daw, del, dew, eat, eld, eta, lad, lat, law, lea, led.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-t-t-w"
 

+1 letter: twattled.

 

+3 letters: wattlebird, wildcatted, wildcatter.

 

+4 letters: wattlebirds, wildcatters.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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