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Definition: Dogsbody |
DogsbodyNoun1. A domestic servant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: DogsbodySynonym: menial (n). (additional references) |
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| "Dogsbody" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dogsbody" is used about 33 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) | 100% | 33 | 60,273 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dogsbody": secretary-cum-telephonist-cum-general-dogsbody. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dogsbody | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dogsbody"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shërbyese (girl, help, maid, maidservant, nurse, slavey, stewardess, wench, woman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منهك (dog tired, exhausted, exhausting, grueling, haggard, overfatigued, overstrained, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, tired, tiring, toilsome, toil-worn, weary, worn out), مستغل (exploited, exploiter, hard done by). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dìvèe pro všechno, poskok (caper, hop, skip, stooge, underling, understrapper), hadr na holi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | maigre, exploité, bon tout faire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mädchen für alles (gofer, handyman, maid-of-all-work), handlanger (handmaid, handyman, henchman, odd-job man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פועל מ וצל, א"ם תשוש. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mindenes (do all, factotum, general servant, maid of all work, odd hand, utility man), csicskás (bat, batboy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogsbodyday работяга (willing horse). (various references) vrsta čamca (punt). (various references) burro de carga (hard worker). (various references) passopp (attendant), arbetsräl. (various references) köle gibi çalıştırılan kimse (peon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-d-g-o-o-s-y" | |
-1 letter: goodbys. | |
-2 letters: goodby. | |
-3 letters: boogy, boyos, dodgy, dodos, gobos, goods, goody, goosy, soddy. | |
-4 letters: bods, body, bogs, bogy, boos, boyo, boys, doby, dodo, dogs, dogy, gobo, gobs, goby, gods, good, goos, goys, odds, sybo, yobs, yods. | |
-5 letters: bod, bog, boo, bos, boy, bys, dog, dos, gob, god, goo, gos, goy, odd, ods, sob, sod, soy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 67 73 62 6F 64 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01100111 01110011 01100010 01101111 01100100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o g s b o d y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0067 0073 0062 006F 0064 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3881738568817091 |
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