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Definition: Blow Dryer |
Blow DryerNoun1. A hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair; used for styling hair. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Blow DryerSynonyms: blow drier (n), hair drier (n), hair dryer (n), hand blower (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | I heated a whole house with a blow dryer and and a waffle iron (Cedric the Entertainer Presents; writing credit: Charles Peattie; Mark Warren) | |
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High Tech |
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 | Hair dryer; blow dryer; personal appliance; blower; hot air. |
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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 |
blow dryer | 2,104 |
blow dryer ionic | 6 |
hair blow dryer | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "blow dryer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | hajszárító (dryer, hair drier, hair dryer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owblay yerdray.(various references) | |
Turkish | saç kurutma makinesi (hair drier, hair dryer, hairdrier), fön makinesi (hair drier). (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Blow Dryer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blowdryer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-l-o-r-r-w-y" | |
-2 letters: beworry, bowlder, lowbred, orderly. | |
-3 letters: blowed, blower, bolder, bordel, border, bowery, bowled, bowler, bowyer, browed, byrled, byword, dowery, lowery, rebody, reword, weldor, yodler, yowled, yowler. | |
-4 letters: below, berry, beryl, blowy, bored, borer, bowed, bowel, bower, derby, derry, dowel, dower, dowry, dryer, elbow, lobed, lorry, lowed, lower, odyle, older, orbed, order, redly, redry, robed. | |
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