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Definition: Boogie |
BoogieNoun1. An instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: BoogieSynonym: boogie-woogie (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Boogie |
| Specialty definitions using "boogie": Ghetto Board. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Woowho, lets boogie. (House on Haunted Hill; writing credit: Dick Beebe) Boogie, Boogie, Boogie (A Night at the Opera; writing credit: James Kevin McGuinness; George S. Kaufman) It's boogie time (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Lyrics | He had a boogie style that no one else could play (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler) Gotta straighten up your act and boogie down (Off the Wall; performing artist: Michael Jackson) Steady breakin to the boogie so bang time (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) OH MY MY, OH MY MY, YOU CAN BOOGIE IF YOU TRY. (Oh My My; performing artist: Ringo Starr) Like the boogie to the boogie without the boogie bang ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Born to Boogie (1972) Boogie Woogie (1960) Baby Boogie (1955) Boogie Woogie Blues (1948) Bumble Boogie (1948) | |
Song Titles | BOOGIE WONDERLAND (performing artist: Wind & Fire & Emotions Earth) BOOGIE NIGHTS (performing artist: Heatwave ) Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flue (performing artist: Johnny Rivers) I'M YOUR BOOGIE MAN (performing artist: K.C. & THE SUNSHINE BAND) Jungle Boogie (performing artist: Kool & The Gang) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | A boogie woogie piano style. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Boogie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.29% of the time. "Boogie" is used about 84 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 (singular) | 89.29% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.33% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 84 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "boogie": boogie-meal, boogie-musicians, boogie-woogie. | |
Ending with "boogie": a-boogie, heads-down-take-no-nonsense-mindless-boogie, king-boogie. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "boogie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | буги-вуги (boogie-woogie). (various references) | |
Czech | bugy-vugy (boogie-woogie). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ブーリアン関数 (boogie-woogie, Boole, boolean function, bouillabaisse, bouillon, boulevard, Budapest, buoy, butadiene, butane, buzzer, ugly woman, V neck, vertical take-of and landing, VTOL, V-turn). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブギー . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oogiebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | espécie de blues (boogie-woogie). (various references) | |
Spanish | mover el esqueleto. (various references) | |
Turkish | piyano ile caz çalma (boogie-woogie). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | điệu nhạc bugi-ugi điệu nhảy bugi-ugi (boogie-woogie, boogy-woogy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "boogie": boogied, boogieing, boogies. (additional references) | |
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"Boogie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beogy, boagie, Bobotie, bodgie, Boetie, bogee, boggie, Bogi, bogic, bogien, Bogoria, bogosian, bogye, Boloria, boobie, boodie, boogan, boogy, booie, boojie, boojum, boolie, Borovik, bouggie, bougie, bouie, Boutie, bouvia, Bowgie, bozie, bugee, buggie, bugie, Bugio, Bugue, googlie, loogie, ogie, oogie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "boogie" (pronounced buw"gē or buh"gē) |
| 4 | b uh" g ē | bogie. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-o-o" | |
-1 letter: bogie. | |
-2 letters: gibe, gobo, oboe. | |
-3 letters: beg, big, bio, bog, boo, ego, gib, gie, gob, goo, obe, obi. | |
-4 letters: be, bi, bo, go, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-i-o-o" | |
+1 letter: boogied, boogies. | |
+3 letters: befooling, behooving, biogenous, biologies, bioregion, boogeying, boogieing, bourgeois, guidebook, rebooking, rebooting. | |
+4 letters: beblooding, beglooming, besoothing, bioregions, bourgeoise, bridegroom, bryologies, dogsbodies, embosoming, exobiology, footbridge, foreboding, geobotanic, guidebooks, hemoglobin, obsoleting, prebooking, reblooming. | |
+5 letters: aerobiology, besmoothing, bioregional, bookkeeping, bookselling, bootlegging, bourgeoises, bourgeoisie, bourgeoning, bridegrooms, coembodying, cognoscible, footbridges, forebodings, freebooting, geobotanies, geobotanist, hemoglobins, negrophobia, obsolescing, overblowing, overboiling, overbooking, prebiologic, symbologies, tribologies. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Sounds 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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