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Definition: Colicky |
ColickyAdjective1. Suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "colicky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references) |
Synonyms: ColickySynonyms: flatulent (adj), gassy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Colicky |
| English words defined with "colicky": Tormina. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The clinical picture is one of a very unhappy colicky child who may not sleep well at night. (references) | |
The main symptoms are diarrhea and colicky abdominal pain.Β Migration of the eggs to the heart, resulting in potentially fatal myocardial and valvular damage, has been reported from the Philippines. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Colicky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Colicky" is used about 9 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
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 |
colicky baby | 48 |
colicky | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "colicky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qΓ« vuan nga dhimbja barku. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ΡΡΡΠ°Π΄Π°Ρ ΠΎΡ ΠΊΠΎΠ»ΠΈΠΊΠΈ, ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΈΠ·Π²ΠΈΠΊΠ²Π°Ρ ΠΊΠΎΠ»ΠΈΠΊΠΈ, ΠΈΠΌΠ°Ρ Ρ Π°ΡΠ°ΠΊΡΠ΅Ρ Π½Π° ΠΊΠΎΠ»ΠΈΠΊΠΈ. (various references) | |
Czech | kolikovΓ½. (various references) | |
German | kolikartig. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kΓ³likΓ‘s. (various references) | |
Manx | collaneagh (intestinal). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olickycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | que contrai cΓ³licas. (various references) | |
Russian | Π²ΡΠ·ΡΠ²Π°ΡΡΠΈΠΉ ΠΊΠΎΠ»ΠΈΠΊΠΈ, ΠΈΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΈΠΉ Ρ Π°ΡΠ°ΠΊΡΠ΅Ρ ΠΊΠΎΠ»ΠΈΠΊ. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji ima grΔeve. (various references) | |
Spanish | de cΓ³lico. (various references) | |
Swedish | kolik-. (various references) | |
Turkish | kolik tΓΌrΓΌnden. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Π·Π³Π°Π΄ΡΡΡΠΈΠΉ ΠΊΠΎΠ»ΡΠΊΠΈ. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | Δau bα»₯ng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Colicky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Callick, Caslick, Choleski, clacky, Clicki, Colcy, colick, colicy, Colkirk, collick, collicky, Colucci, Comiskey, Conlisk, Coolock, Cumiskey, Cuzick, Kosleck, Kotick, kubicki, Mcluckie, Scolnick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "colicky" (pronounced 'Col"ick*y'): frolicky, Phthisicky. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cockily. | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-k-l-o-y" | |
-2 letters: click, clock, cocky, colic, cyclo. | |
-3 letters: cloy, coil, coly, icky, kilo, lick, loci, lock, oily, yock, yolk. | |
-4 letters: col, coy, ick, icy, ilk, koi, oil, yok. | |
-5 letters: li, lo, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-k-l-o-y" | |
+2 letters: billycock, kilocycle. | |
+3 letters: billycocks, kilocycles, leukocytic. | |
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