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Definition: Bozo |
BozoNoun1. A man who is a stupid fool. 2. An informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BozoSynonyms: cat (n), cuckoo (n), fathead (n), goof (n), goose (n), guy (n), hombre (n), jackass (n), twat (n), zany (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bozo |
| Specialty definitions using "bozo": bozotic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bozo" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (down, halter). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Eat flame, Bozo! (Girls Just Want to Have Fun; writing credit: Amy Spies) He won't take old Bozo, my lead dog. (The Fatal Glass of Beer; writing credit: Beulah Marie Dix; Bertram Millhauser) Let's dance, Bozo. (Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker; writing credit: Bob Kane; Paul Dini) No! Bozo the Clown (Night of the Creeps; writing credit: Fred Dekker) And that's Mr. Bozo, okay (Quick Change; writing credit: Howard Franklin) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bozo the Clown (1960) What a Bozo! (1931) The Beloved Bozo (1925) Bozo Arrives (1913) The Bozo Super Sunday Show (1994) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Mali | The Bambara, Malinke, Sarakole, and Dogon are farmers; the Fulani, Maur, and Tuareg are herders; while the Bozo are fishers. (references) |
Minorities | Cote d'Ivoire | On July 29, native Baoule attacked Malian Bozo fishermen in Bouafle and killed two Bozos. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | The Baoule fishermen, who resented the presence of the Malians, burned two Bozo settlements. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bozo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Bozo" is used about 10 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) | 80% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bozo | 158 | bozo palhaço | 5 |
bozo the clown | 128 | bozo criminal day | 4 |
truckin bozo | 39 | bozo picture | 4 |
bozo trucking | 34 | bozo clown does shoes size wear | 4 |
bozo the clown picture | 17 | bozo clown pic | 3 |
bozo circus porn | 14 | bozo clown shoes size | 3 |
bozo laura | 10 | bizarre bozo | 2 |
bozo show | 9 | bozo.com truckin | 2 |
bozo criminal | 7 | bozo wgn | 2 |
bozo porn | 6 | aeton bozo dave | 2 |
bozo guitar | 5 | bozo clown show tv | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bozo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Greek | βλάκας (ass, dimwit, fool, idiot, nitwit), μπούφος (eagle owl), χαζός (dumb, fool, foolish, silly, stupid). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bolond ember (coot, fool, jackass, nut, wacko, whacko). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ozobay.(various references) | |
Russian | субъект (subject), 'тип'. (various references) | |
Thai | คนโง่ (apeth, berk, birdbrain, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodpole, div, doughnut, dove, dummy, dunce, featherbrain, fool, half-wit, ignoramus, loon, muddlehead, mug, muggins, muppet, mut, nerd, nincompoop, nit, noddy, oaf, schlepp, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, thicko). (various references) | |
Turkish | herif (blighter, bloke, bugger, Buster, cove, cuss, customer, Dick, dog, fellow, guy, Johnny, josser, mug, sod, stooge, varlet), adam (bean, bird, Buster, chap, cookie, cooky, cuss, Dick, dog, employee, feller, fellow, fellow man, guy, Jack, joker, man, person). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bozo": bozos. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bozo": rebozo. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bozo": rebozos. (additional references) | |
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"Bozo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: benzo, beso, bezo, Bezu, Biozorb, biso, Bizzi, bizzo, bobo, Bobzao, bodo, bodz, bofo, bojo, Bomza, bonzo, booz, Borzov, Boskop, boso, bosox, bouzah, Bouzi, boxo, boyo, boz, boze, bozie, bozin, bozom, Bozon, bozou, bozy, bozz, Bozza, Bozzi, Bozzie, bozzo, Bozzy, brooz, Broso, Brotzu, buoz, buso, buza, buzi, Buzu, bz, Mboso, obizzi, ozo, ozu, sozo, Yozo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-o-o-z" | |
-1 letter: boo, zoo. | |
-2 letters: bo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-o-o-z" | |
+1 letter: bazoo, booze, boozy, bozos. | |
+2 letters: bazoos, boozed, boozer, boozes, borzoi, rebozo. | |
+3 letters: bazooka, bazooms, boozers, boozier, boozily, boozing, borzois, rebozos. | |
+4 letters: bazookas, booziest, bouzouki, bryozoan, robotize, zoophobe. | |
+5 letters: bamboozle, bouzoukia, bouzoukis, bryozoans, robotized, robotizes, zebrawood, zoophobes. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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