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Definition: Yogi |
YogiNoun1. United States baseball player (born 1925). 2. One who practices yoga and has achieved a high level of spiritual insight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Yogi" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references) |
Synonyms: YogiSynonyms: Berra (n), Lawrence Peter Berra (n), Yogi Berra (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Asceticism | Ascetic; anchoret, anchorite; martyr; Heautontimorumenos; hermit; (recluse); puritan, sabbatarian, cynic, sanyasi, yogi. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Yogi |
| Non-English Usage: "Yogi" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (yogi), German (yogi), Italian (yogi), Swedish (yogi), Turkish (yogi). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | 'Cause a baseball can only be one size, so it's a Yogi Berra type thing. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) Yogi Bear? (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) Do you remember that time when I was climbing your fence, and I hit my forehead on that tree branch, and I fell into your yard, and your dog Yogi came out of the house and bit me twice on the ass? (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Movie/TV Titles | It's Yogi Bear Hey There (1964) The Yogi Bear Show (1960) Yogi Vemana (1947) Raja Yogi (1925) The Yogi (1913) | |
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| "Yogi" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Yogi" is used about 14 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) | 50% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Yogi": Yogi Berra. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
yogi bear | 551 | yogi bear cartoon | 23 |
yogi bear campground | 314 | hogi yogi | 22 |
yogi berra | 310 | bear dells.com yogi | 21 |
yogi | 153 | yogi bear campsite | 21 |
yogi bear jellystone park | 129 | autobiography of a yogi | 19 |
berra quote yogi | 125 | river yogi | 17 |
yogi bear park | 81 | yogi bhajan | 17 |
yogi tea | 79 | berra saying yogi | 17 |
berra stadium yogi | 53 | campground yogi | 14 |
camping yogi bear | 52 | yogi beara | 14 |
yogi berra museum | 41 | yogi bear camp resort | 13 |
yogi bear camp | 36 | yogi bear jellystone camp | 13 |
yogi bear jellystone campground | 35 | yogi and boo boo | 13 |
maharishi mahesh yogi | 35 | bear campground michigan yogi | 12 |
yogi bear jellystone | 32 | bera quote yogi | 12 |
yogi bear camp grounds | 30 | bear dell wisconsin yogi | 12 |
bear picture yogi | 29 | ho yogi | 12 |
in smokies yogi | 29 | yogi berra picture | 11 |
yogi bera | 29 | yogi bear and boo boo | 11 |
yogi bear camp ground | 24 | yogi bear jelly stone park | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Yogi"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | اليوغاني. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | учител по йогизъм, експерт по йогизъм, последовател на йогизма. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | jogín. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مرتاض هندی (Yogin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | yogi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | yogi, jogi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יו'י. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jógi, jóga gyakorlója. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | yogi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yogiay jogue. (various references) йог. (various references) jogi. (various references) yogui. (various references) yogi, yogautövare, yogalärare. (various references) yogi, yoga sofusu. (various references) йог. (various references) người theo thuyết du gi . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Yogi": yogic, yogin, yogini, yoginis, yogins, yogis. (additional references) | |
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"Yogi" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cogi, hogi, iogt, Ioi, jogi, nogi, Oggi, ogi, oyi, Poggi, pogi, ryoji, yage, Yagi, Yagya, yai, yaog, yeg, yeggi, yg, y'got, ygu, Yigal, yog, yogan, yogat, yoge, yogee, yogel, yogie, yogin, yogir, yogiz, yogo, yogy, yohi, yoi, yoik, yoin, yojo, yoli, yomi, yoog, yoqi, yorg, yorgi, yori, yosi, yovi, yovic, yozi, Yui. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Yogi" (pronounced yō"gē) |
| 3 | -ō" g ē | bogey, fogy, hoagie, Hoagy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-o-y" | |
-1 letter: goy. | |
-2 letters: go, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-o-y" | |
+1 letter: goyim, yogic, yogin, yogis. | |
+2 letters: coying, gorily, goyish, joying, logily, toying, yogini, yogins, yoking, yowing, zygoid. | |
+3 letters: bigotry, biogeny, biology, bodying, bogyism, buoying, cloying, copying, cosying, cozying, foggily, fogyish, fogyism, glorify, godlily, goofily, gossipy, goutily, highboy, hypoing, ignobly, isogamy, isogeny, isogony, kayoing, obeying, okaying, ouguiya, ploying, podgily, ponying, prodigy, pygmoid, signory, soggily, trilogy, yocking, yodling, yoginis, yowling, zygosis, zygotic. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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