Down-and-out

Definition: Down-and-out

Down-and-out

Adjective

1. Lacking resources (or any prospect of resources).

Noun

1. A person who is destitute; "he tried to help the down-and-out".

Usage Frequency: Down-and-out

"Down-and-out" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Down-and-out" 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)

Modern Translation: Down-and-out

Language		Translations for "down-and-out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		廃残 (decline, ruin). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はいざ�" (abandoned mine, decline, defeat, ruin). (various references)

Manx		kercheenagh (abject, cringing, cullionly, dependent, impoverished, impoverishing, miserable, rotten, servile, shabby, slavish, truckle, vile, vile morally), kercheen (base person, cringe of person; underling, cringe; underling, cullion, cur, cur person, henchman, rotter, servile person, vagabond, wretch). (various references)

Pig Latin		own-and-outday

Portuguese		vagabundo (bum, cornerman, gadabout, gadder, hobo, landloper, landlouper, lazybones, maverick, planetary, prowler, rambling, ranger, rover, rowdy, runabout, stroller, strolling, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, waif, wanderer, wandering, wastrel, woodward). (various references)

Russian		бродячий (knock about, nomad, nomadic, rambling, rangy, strolling, wandering), безработный (jobless, on the wallaby, on the wallaby track, out of place, out of work, unemployed). (various references)

Thai		คนยากจน. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Down-and-out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-n-n-o-o-t-u-w"
	-3 letters: nutwood.
	-4 letters: adnoun, outadd, wanton, wonton.
	-5 letters: adown, daunt, donna, donut, outdo, tondo, unwon, wound.
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