Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Beamish |
BeamishAdjective1. Smiling with happiness or optimism; "Come to my arms, my beamish boy!"- Lewis Carroll; "a room of smiling faces"; "a round red twinkly Santa Claus". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beamish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references) |
Synonyms: BeamishSynonyms: smiling(a) (adj), twinkly (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Beamish |
| English words defined with "beamish": smiling ♦ twinkly. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Music |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Beamish" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 53.51% of the time. "Beamish" is used about 114 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 (common) | 53.51% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Noun (proper) | 23.68% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 21.05% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 114 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "beamish" 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 |
| Beamish | Last name | 300 | 26,828 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "beamish": beamish-based. | |
| 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 |
beamish | 32 |
willy beamish | 23 |
beamish museam | 11 |
beamish download willy | 7 |
beamish museum | 7 |
beamish beer | 4 |
beamish stout | 4 |
beamish through walk willy | 4 |
beamish suzuki | 2 |
beamish robert | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "beamish": beamishly. (additional references) | |
| |
"Beamish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abesamis, Bamissi, beamishes, beamishest, Bejasis, Besakih, bevanism, braimah, Braimoh, Bramische, breamish, deanish, eeikish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beamish" (pronounced bē"mish) |
| 4 | -ē" m i sh | squeamish. |
| 3 | -m i sh | blemish, skirmish, warmish. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-i-m-s" | |
-1 letter: bimahs, mashie. | |
-2 letters: amies, beams, bemas, bimah, bimas, haems, hames, iambs, mabes, sahib, shame. | |
-3 letters: ahem, aims, amie, amis, bams, base, bash, beam, bema, bias, bima, bise, haem, haes, hame, hams, hems, hies, iamb, isba, mabe, maes, mash, mesa, mesh, mibs, mise, sabe, same, seam, semi, sham, shea, shim, sima. | |
-4 letters: abs, aim, ais, ami, ash, bah, bam, bas, bis, ems, hae, ham, has, hem, hes, hie, him, his, ism, mae, mas, mib, mis, sab, sae, sea, sei, sha, she, sib, sim. | |
-5 letters: ab, ae, ah, ai, am, as, ba, be, bi, eh, em, es, ha, he, hi, hm, is, ma, me, mi, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-h-i-m-s" | |
+1 letter: bohemias, memsahib, obeahism. | |
+2 letters: beamishly, beshaming, bohemians, memsahibs, misbehave, obeahisms. | |
+3 letters: amphiboles, banishment, herbariums, misbehaved, misbehaver, misbehaves. | |
+4 letters: abolishment, amphibolies, amphisbaena, banishments, behaviorism, bichromates, blasphemies, blaspheming, bohemianism, habiliments, misbehavers, misbehaving, misbehavior, timberheads. | |
+5 letters: abolishments, amphibolites, amphisbaenae, amphisbaenas, amphisbaenic, bathymetries, behaviorisms, biochemicals, biomechanics, blandishment, bohemianisms, chamberlains, chambermaids, diminishable, imperishable, imperishably, misbehaviors, stablishment. | |
| 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 65 61 6D 69 73 68 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .- -- .. ... .... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100001 01101101 01101001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e a m i s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0061 006D 0069 0073 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36716779758574 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
