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Definition: Big-boned |
Big-bonedAdjective1. Having a bone structure that is massive in contrast with the surrounding flesh. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "big-boned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Crosswords: Big-boned |
| English words defined with "big-boned": athletic type ♦ mesomorphy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm not fat, I'm big-boned! (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Big-boned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Big-boned" is used about 12 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% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "big-boned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 大去骨. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | grobknochig (rawboned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 骨太 (stout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほねぶと (stout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 크 뼈를 발라내". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mooar-chraueagh (bony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ig-bonedbay osos (angular, bony, osseous, raw boned), cu oase mari. (various references) garbh-chn mhach (a. big-boned). (various references) huesudo (bony, raw boned, scrawny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-g-i-n-o" | |
-2 letters: binged, biogen, boding, bonged, dobbin, ebbing, gibbed, gibbon, gobbed, nibbed. | |
-3 letters: begin, being, binge, bingo, bogie, boing, boned, deign, dinge, dingo, dobie, dogie, doing, geoid, gibed. | |
-4 letters: bend, bide, bind, bine, bode, bond, bone, bong, deni, dine, ding, doge, done, dong, ebon, gibe, gied, gien, gone, nide, node, nodi. | |
-5 letters: bed, beg, ben, bib. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-d-e-g-i-n-o" | |
+1 letter: demobbing. | |
+2 letters: beblooding. | |
+3 letters: bobsledding, divebombing, overdubbing. | |
+4 letters: bobsleddings. | |
+5 letters: breadboarding. | |
| 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 69 67 2D 62 6F 6E 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100111 00101101 01100010 01101111 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i g - b o n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0067 002D 0062 006F 006E 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367573156881807170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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