WHITTINGTON

Date "WHITTINGTON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Domain	Definition
Biographical Satire	WHITTINGTON, Richard, proprietor of a celebrated back-fence walker. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
Literature	Whittington (See under Cat; alsoWittington .) Riley in his Munimenta Gildhalla Londenensis (p. xviii.) says achat was used at the time for "trading" (i.e. buying and selling), and that Whittington made his money by achat, called acat. We have the word in cater, caterer. As much error exists respecting Dick Whittington, the following account will be useful. He was born in Gloucestershire, in the middle of the fourteenth century, and was the son of a knight of good property. He went to London to learn how to become a merchant. His master was a relative, and took a great interest in the boy, who subsequently married Alice, his master's daughter. He became very rich, and was four times Mayor of London, but the first time was before the office was created Lord Mayor by Richard II. He died in 1423, during his year of office, about sixty-three years of age. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: WHITTINGTON

Specialty definitions using "WHITTINGTON": Cat Proverbs ♦ Poets Laureate ♦ Wittington. (references)

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Movie/TV Titles

Dick Whittington (1932)

A Modern Dick Whittington (1913)

Dick Whittington and his Cat (1913)

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	Not Whittington and his cat, from the original in the collection of U. Samuel, Esq. Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.
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"WHITTINGTON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WHITTINGTON" is used about 104 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 (proper)	100%	104	31,955

The following table summarizes the usage of "WHITTINGTON" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Whittington	Last name	6,000	2,050
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1. Whittington, IL
Zip Code(s): 62897
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WHITTINGTON

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
whittington	18
center whittington	14
nra whittington center	12
anthony whittington	8
dick whittington	6
whittington il	6
hospital whittington	5
jim whittington	4
buddy whittington	4
bernard whittington	4
dale whittington	3
richard whittington	3
apollo child whittington	3
don whittington	2
barrack whittington	2
mark whittington	2
hankins whittington	2
furniture whittington	2
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Misspellings: WHITTINGTON

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

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Anagrams: WHITTINGTON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-h-i-i-n-n-o-t-t-t-w"
	-3 letters: twinight, twitting.
	-4 letters: hinting, hitting, hotting, nothing, thionin, tinting, tithing, toiting, tonight, totting, twining, whining, whiting, withing, witting, wonting, wotting.
	-5 letters: gittin, honing, intown, nitwit, noting, owning, tining, toning, toting, towing, wining, within, witing.
	Words containing the letters "g-h-i-i-n-n-o-t-t-t-w"
	+4 letters: notwithstanding.
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