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Definition: BULLIES |
BULLIESPlural1. Of Bully |
Date "BULLIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | Fragments of country rock enclosed in a mineral vein. (references) |
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Synonym: BULLIESSynonym: Bully. (additional references) |
Crosswords: BULLIES |
| English words defined with "BULLIES": plug-ugly ♦ tough guy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BULLIES": BULLY TRAP ♦ Hawkubites, Hectors ♦ KEEL BULLIES, Knights of the Blade ♦ Nephelo-coccygia ♦ REVERSED. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, there were a lot of bullies in my neighborhood when I was a kid. (Sealab 2021; writing credit: John J. Miller; Adam Reed) I hate bullies!! (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz Käfer) When bullies rise up, the rest of us have to beat them back down, whatever the cost. (The Majestic; writing credit: Michael Sloane) | |
Lyrics | Firm and fully chase bass lines like bullies (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bullies and Bullets (1916) Battle of the Bullies (1985) | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson | Democracy becomes a government of bullies, tempered by editors. |
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| "BULLIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 82.67% of the time. "BULLIES" is used about 75 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 (plural) | 82.67% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 17.33% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 75 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BULLIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | brutalise. (various references) | ||||
German | schikaniert (hazes, torments). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ulliesbay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BULLIES": bulliest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BULLIES": outbullies. (additional references) | |
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"BULLIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abuleia, Bailies, baillies, Balulise, baulieu, billies, Billis, Blumleins, Bollier, bollis, bolties, Buellia, Bugliosi, Bullaasi, bullaces, bullae, bulli, bullien, bullier, bullious, Bullis, bullism, bullosa, bullous, bulltes, Bullus, Bulnes, burlies, Ebulfez. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BULLIES" (pronounced buh"lēz) |
| 4 | -uh" l ē z | pulleys. |
| 3 | -l ē z | alleles, alleys, anomalies, assemblies, Baileys, bellies, chilies, chilis, chillies, Collies, dailies, doilies, facsimiles, families, fillies, follies, galleys, Gillies, grizzlies, gullies, Hillbillies, hollies, homilies, jellies, jollies, lilies, monopolies, rallies, sallies, subassemblies, subfamilies, tallies, tamales, trolleys, valleys, volleys, weeklies. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: libels. | |
-2 letters: bells, biles, bills, blues, bulls, ileus, libel, lieus, lisle, lubes. | |
-3 letters: bell, bels, bile, bill, bise, blue, bull, ells, ills, isle, leis, libs, lies, lieu, lube, lues, sell, sill, slub, slue. | |
-4 letters: bel, bis, bus, ell, els, ill, lei, leu, lib, lie, lis, sei, sel, sib, sub, sue, use. | |
-5 letters: be, bi, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: bulliest, libelous. | |
+2 letters: bdelliums, bluebills, bluegills, bluelines, bulletins, insoluble, libellous, lullabies, plausible, sublimely, subtilely, tullibees. | |
+3 letters: berylliums, bisexually, bushelling, dissoluble, insolubles, outbullies, rebellious, rubellites, solubilise, solubilize, sublimable. | |
+4 letters: brucellosis, bullfinches, bullishness, bullshitted, ebulliences, ebullitions, euglobulins, implausible, irresoluble, publishable, solubilised, solubilises, solubilized, solubilizes, subaerially, submultiple, thimblefuls, umbellifers, unplausible. | |
+5 letters: biomolecules, blissfulness, blusteringly, bullfighters, bullterriers, ebulliencies, emulsifiable, indissoluble, insolubilize, lubberliness, rambouillets, rebelliously, solubilities, submultiples, subsatellite, unassailable, underbellies, unlistenable, volubilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 55 4C 4C 49 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... ..- .-.. .-.. .. . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010101 01001100 01001100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B U L L I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0055 004C 004C 0049 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36554646433953 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | allemand, deutsch, Deutsche |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglais, englisch |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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