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Definition: Dressed-up |
Dressed-upAdjective1. Dressed in fancy or formal clothing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dressed-up" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
Synonyms: Dressed-upSynonyms: dolled up (adj), dressed to kill(p) (adj), dressed to the nines(p) (adj), dressed(p) (adj), spiffed up (adj), spruced up (adj). (additional references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Dressed-up" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dressed-up" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-p-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: spudders. | |
-2 letters: depress, dressed, perdues, perused, peruses, pressed, spudder, supered. | |
-3 letters: drupes, druses, dupers, duress, perdue, perdus, perses, peruse, prudes, pseuds, pureed, purees, pursed, purses, reused, reuses, rupees, seders, speeds, speers, sprees, sprues, sudsed, sudser, sueded, suedes, supers, udders. | |
-4 letters: deeds, deeps, deers, dreed, drees, dress, drupe, druse, dudes, duped, duper, dupes, dured, dures. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-p-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: superseded. | |
+2 letters: suspendered. | |
+4 letters: depressurized. | |
| 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 72 65 73 73 65 64 2D 75 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100100 00101101 01110101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r e s s e d - u p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0065 0073 0073 0065 0064 002D 0075 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38847185857170158782 |
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