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Definition: Baldy |
BaldyNoun1. A person whose head is bald. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "baldy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references) |
Synonyms: BaldySynonyms: baldhead (n), baldpate (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Baldy |
| Specialty definitions using "baldy": 91759. (references) |
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Lyrics | Rubbin on my baldy, kiss and twist your body ("Feels Good"; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Baldy Belmont Picks a Peach (1914) For the Love of Baldy (1914) Baldy Is a Wise Old Bird (1913) The Baldy Man (1995) | |
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 | Landowner Roylene Rides at the Door-Waln, NRCS Resource Conservationist (right) discuss the operation of the ranch. This ranch supports approximately 2,000 head of Hereford and Black Baldy Angus cattle and 12,500 acres of wheat, barley and oats. [Slide 97.Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Grassy hill with Baldy in the background.Credit: Merv Coleman. |
 | Access road with Baldy Mountain in the distance.Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | A Fritillaria glauca at Quarry Baldy Creek on Lone Pine Ridge.Credit: Frank Lang. |
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Health | Klontz KC, Lieb S, Schreiber M, Janowski HT, Baldy LM, Gunn RA. Syndromes of Vibrio vulnificus infections. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Baldy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Baldy" is used about 8 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) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "baldy" 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 |
| Baldy | Last name | 170 | 44,635 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "baldy": Mt Baldy. 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 |
mt baldy | 57 |
baldy ca mount | 34 |
mount baldy | 32 |
baldy | 32 |
baldy hiking mt | 13 |
baldy council old | 10 |
baldy rop view | 8 |
old baldy | 7 |
baldy sarge | 6 |
baldy club old | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "baldy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | glatzkopf (bald head, baldie). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aldybay.(various references) | |
Thai | คนหัวล้าน (baldie, egghead, slaphead). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: badly. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-l-y" | |
-1 letter: ably, bald, lady, yald. | |
-2 letters: aby, alb, bad, bal, bay, dab, dal, day, lab, lad, lay. | |
-3 letters: ab, ad, al, ay, ba, by, la, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-l-y" | |
+1 letter: baldly, belady, drably, dyable. | |
+2 letters: audibly, bawdily, beadily, belayed, blandly, broadly, dryable, durably, dyeable, ladybug, rabidly. | |
+3 letters: abasedly, absurdly, adorably, badgerly, balladry, biasedly, biddably, bladdery, bridally, damnably, deniably, diablery, ladybird, ladybugs, laudably, readably, ribaldly, ribaldry. | |
+4 letters: abidingly, admirably, advisably, avoidably, bastardly, beladying, belatedly, bellyband, bipedally, blackbody, blarneyed, blizzardy, butylated, definably, desirably, endurably, eyeballed, husbandly, inaudibly, ladybirds, molybdate, subacidly, syllabled, twayblade. | |
+5 letters: abundantly, affordably, audibility, backwardly, ballyhooed, bardolatry, bellyached, bellybands, bimodality, bipedality, blizzardly, botryoidal, creditably, debonairly, defrayable, delectably, dependably, deplorably, deployable, despicably, detachably, detestably, dialyzable, disability, disputably, disyllabic, disyllable, durability, dyeability, formidably, illaudably, lumberyard, molybdates, obdurately, pardonably, perdurably, subaudibly, twayblades, unabatedly, undeniably. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6C 64 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-.. -.. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101100 01100100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l d y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 0064 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3667787091 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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