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Definition: Bennie |
BennieNoun1. (trademark) a form of amphetamine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Bennie" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the son of the south", "the son of the right hand". |
Synonym: BennieSynonym: Benzedrine (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bennie |
| Specialty definitions using "bennie": DEMOCRACY. (references) |
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Screenplays | Turn around, Bennie. I don't want you watching this. (FearDotCom; writing credit: Josephine Coyle) | |
Lyrics | But they're so spaced out, Bennie and the Jets ("Bennie And The Jets"; performing artist: Elton John) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields (1929) Bennie (1997) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Weeds choke flood dammaged farm of African American farmer Bennie Butler in Calhoun County, GA.Credit: USDA. |  | African American farmer Bennie Butler talks with Claude Gordon from the Federation of Southern cooperatives, Land Assistance fund on his farm in Calhoun County, GA.Credit: USDA. |
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| "Bennie" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bennie" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bennie" 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 |
| Bennie | First name Female | 7,000 | 1,063 |
| Bennie | First name Male | 32,000 | 371 |
| Bennie | Last name | 200 | 38,584 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Bennie" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the son of the south", "the son of the right hand". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Bennie." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Benjamin | Male | Biblical | N/A |
| Ben | Male | English | Benjamin |
| Benjamin | Male | English | N/A |
| Benjy | Male | English | Benjamin |
| Bennie | Male | English | Benjamin |
| Benny | Male | English | Benjamin |
| Benjamin | Male | French | N/A |
| Benjamine | Female | French | Benjamin |
| Benjamin | Male | German | N/A |
| Benjamin | Male | Hungarian | N/A |
| Beniamino | Male | Italian | Benjamin |
| Binyamin | Male | Jewish | Benjamin |
| Veniamin | Male | Russian | Benjamin |
| Benjamín | Male | Spanish | Benjamin |
| 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bennie": bennies. (additional references) | |
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"Bennie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abenina, Bahnini, Bannau, Banvie, Banzie, Behnke, Beineix, Benani, Benci, Bencie, Beneix, Beneke, Benenden, Bengie, Benie, benine, Benjie, Benjies, Benni, Bennlech, Benoir, Benoni, Bentii, Benvie, Benyi, Benzie, Besnier, Bienne, Binnein, binnie, Boeninger, Bonnieux, Bunnage, Bunnie, Fennie, Nennie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-n-n" | |
-1 letter: benne, benni. | |
-2 letters: been, bene, bine, nene, nine. | |
-3 letters: bee, ben, bin, inn, neb, nee, nib. | |
-4 letters: be, bi, en, in, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-n-n" | |
+1 letter: bennies, benzine. | |
+2 letters: beginner, benzines, biennale, blennies. | |
+3 letters: beelining, beginners, bemeaning, bengaline, bentonite, benzenoid, benzidine, biennales, nonbelief, nonedible. | |
+4 letters: abstinence, barkentine, bedizening, beneficent, beneficing, benefiting, bengalines, bentonites, benzidines, benzocaine, betokening, boninesses, enfeebling, enunciable, inbreeding, insensible, nimbleness, nonbeliefs, reblending, undeniable, unenviable. | |
+5 letters: abstinences, barkentines, barquentine, bedarkening, bedeafening, bedizenment, bedrenching, befingering, befriending, bemaddening, benediction, benefaction, beneficence, benefitting, benignities, benzocaines, bescreening, bicentenary, bioengineer, blindnesses, boutonniere, breadwinner, brininesses, businessmen, condensible, connectible, emboldening, encumbering, herringbone, ignobleness, inalienable, inbreedings, indefinable, inenarrable, innumerable, langbeinite, mentionable, nonbeliever, nonbreeding, pensionable, rebeginning, renumbering, snakebitten, tenebrionid, unalienable, unbelieving, unbeseeming, unbreeching, undefinable. | |
| 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 6E 6E 69 65 |
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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 01100101 01101110 01101110 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e n n i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 006E 006E 0069 0065 |
| 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)367180807571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Names: Derived from 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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