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Definition: Bloodsucking |
BloodsuckingAdjective1. Drawing blood from the body of another; "a plague of bloodsucking insects". 2. Of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his indolent leechlike existence". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bloodsucking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
Synonyms: BloodsuckingSynonyms: leechlike (adj), parasitic (adj), parasitical (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bloodsucking |
| English words defined with "bloodsucking": big bedbug, bloodsucker ♦ conenose, conenose bug, cone-nosed bug ♦ genus Haematobia ♦ Haematobia, Haematophlina, hirudinean ♦ kissing bug ♦ leech ♦ Vampirism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bloodsucking": Phlebotomus Fever ♦ Tick-Borne Diseases, Tsetse Flies. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The only one on my side is the bloodsucking lawyer (Jurassic Park; writing credit: Michael Crichton) I'm a bloodsucking fiend (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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Expression using "bloodsucking": parasitic parasitical leechlike bloodsucking. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
bloodsucking freak | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bloodsucking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Manx | croaganys, croaganagh (importunate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodsuckingblay.(various references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bloodsucking" (pronounced blu"dsu'king) |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-g-i-k-l-n-o-o-s-u" | |
-2 letters: subcooling. | |
-3 letters: bloodings, ducklings. | |
-4 letters: blocking, blooding, blousing, boodling, bookings, buckling, clouding, codlings, cookings, doubling, duckling, globoids, gunlocks, lingcods, scolding, sculking, suckling, sunblock, unblocks. | |
-5 letters: blouson, bluings, bodings, bodkins, bonducs, booking, bousing, bucking, bulking, busking, closing, codling, codlins, colobus, colonus, colugos, congius, congous, conoids, cooking, cooling, cuboids, diobols, doblons, docking, dousing, ducking, duologs, dusking. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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