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Definitions: Bald-headed |
Bald-headedAdjective1. Lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; "a bald pate"; "a bald-headed gentleman". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bald-headed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Synonyms: Bald-headedSynonyms: bald (adj), bald-pated (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: bald (medicine). |
Crosswords: Bald-headed |
| English words defined with "bald-headed": bald, bald-pated. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bald-headed": Bald, bald-headed anticline. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight. (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.) And it's a bald-headed man from New York! (Lost in America; writing credit: Albert Brooks; Monica Mcgowan Johnson) Jesus H. bald-headed Christ! (Stand by Me; writing credit: Raynold Gideon) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Bald-headed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bald-headed" is used about 18 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "bald-headed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tullac (bald, calvity). (various references) | |
Arabic | شخص أصلع (bald head). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | плешив (bald, calvish). (various references) | |
Danish | skaldet (bald). (various references) | |
Dutch | kaal (bald, bleak), calvus (bald, calvus). (various references) | |
French | chauve (bald). (various references) | |
German | kahlköpfig (bald, bald headed, baldheaded), glatzköpfig (bald), Calvus (bald, calvus). (various references) | |
Greek | φαλακρός (bald, calvus). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kopasz fejû. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 光 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "うとう (aloof, bow deeply, demotion, goodpitching, high class, high grade, highbrow, kowtow, larynx, oral, oral answer, political party, red light, steep price rise, sudden price jump, the imperial line, transcendent). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ald-headedbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | calvo (bald, hairless). (various references) | |
Romanian | pleşuv (bald, bare, barren, hairless, smooth), chel (bald, hairless, pilgarlic, scalpless, smooth). (various references) | |
Russian | лысый (bald, baldheaded, hairless). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ćelav (bald, hairless). (various references) | |
Spanish | calvo (bald, bald-pated, hairless, threadbare). (various references) | |
Swedish | flintskallig (bald). (various references) | |
Turkish | kel kafalı. (various references) | |
Ukranian | голомозий (bald), напролом, лисий (bald, bald pate, hairless), плішивий (bald, bald pate). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: baldheaded. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-d-e-e-h-l" | |
-2 letters: baldhead, deadhead. | |
-3 letters: addable. | |
-4 letters: addled, balded, beaded, beadle, bedded, behead, beheld, bladed, daddle, daedal, daledh, delead, headed, healed, heddle, leaded. | |
-5 letters: aahed, abele, added, addle, ahead, baaed, baled, bedel, blade, bleed, dedal, deled, hadal, haded, haled, laded. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6C 64 2D 68 65 61 64 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101100 01100100 00101101 01101000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l d - h e a d e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 0064 002D 0068 0065 0061 0064 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3667787015747167707170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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