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Definitions: Earful |
EarfulNoun1. An outpouring of gossip. 2. A severe scolding. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "earful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
Synonyms: EarfulSynonyms: bawling out (n), castigation (n), chewing out (n), dressing down (n), going-over (n), upbraiding (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | At dinner I am getting earful. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Earful" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Earful" is used about 14 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% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "earful": get an earful ♦ give smb. an earful. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
earful of book | 7 |
earful | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "earful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | توبيخ قاس (hell, vituperation). (various references) | |
Chinese | 过多的话. (various references) | |
Czech | svùj díl, co proto. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fontos hír. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earfulay.(various references) | |
Russian | куча всяких сплетен и новостей. (various references) | |
Spanish | regaño (chide, row, scold, scolding), noticias, rumores/arenga, admonición. (various references) | |
Thai | การต่อว่าอย่างรุนแรง, ข่าวจำนวนมาก. (various references) | |
Turkish | azar (going-over, jaw, lashing, lecture, objurgation, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, reproval, rocket, scolding, slating, talking to, telling off, tongue-lashing, trimming), şaşırtıcı cevap. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "earful": earfuls. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "earful": fearful, tearful. (additional references) | |
Words containing "earful": fearfuller, fearfullest, fearfully, fearfulness, fearfulnesses, tearfully, tearfulness, tearfulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Earful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bardful, barnful, beakful, cearful, Darfold, earfull, Erfal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ferula. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-r-u" | |
-1 letter: farle, feral, feuar, flare, ureal. | |
-2 letters: alef, earl, fare, farl, feal, fear, flea, flue, frae, fuel, furl, leaf, lear, lure, rale, real, rule, urea. | |
-3 letters: ale, are, arf, ear, eau, elf, era, far, fer, feu, flu, fur, lar, lea, leu, ref, rue. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, ar, ef, el, er, fa, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-r-u" | |
+1 letter: careful, dareful, earfuls, failure, fearful, ferulae, ferulas, flaneur, flareup, frenula, funeral, refusal, refutal, tearful. | |
+2 letters: aflutter, awfuller, dreadful, dreamful, failures, faultier, filature, flaneurs, flareups, flaunter, flexural, formulae, fraulein, fumarole, funerals, funereal, furculae, furlable, graceful, grateful, refusals, refutals, surfable, weariful. | |
+3 letters: barrelful, carefully, defaulter, drawerful, dreadfuls, fearfully, filatures, flaunters, flauntier, flavoured, formulate, frauleins, fulgurate, fumaroles, gardenful, lifeguard, masterful, prayerful, prefeudal, qualifier, refutable, refutably, regardful, requalify, tearfully, ultrafine, ultraleft, ultrasafe. | |
+4 letters: artfulness, barrelfuls, barrelsful, carefuller, defaulters, drawerfuls, dreadfully, dreamfully, enfleurage, fearfuller, fluoridate, fluorinate, formulated, formulates, fraudulent, fulgurated, fulgurates, funereally, gardenfuls, gracefully, gratefully, langlaufer, lifeguards, luciferase, painfuller, platterful, prequalify, presageful, qualifiers, quatrefoil, refundable, sufferable, sufferably, superflack, ultrafiche, ungraceful, ungrateful, wearifully. | |
+5 letters: beautifuler, calciferous, carefullest, carefulness, cauliflower, centrifugal, disgraceful, enfleurages, faultfinder, fearfullest, fearfulness, featureless, fluoridated, fluoridates, fluorinated, fluorinates, formularies, formularize, fortunately, fraudulence, frugalities, gracefuller, gratefuller, harmfulness, irrefutable, irrefutably, lactiferous, langlaufers, lifeguarded, luciferases, masterfully, nefariously, overcareful, peacefuller, platterfuls, plattersful, prayerfully, prefectural, quatrefoils, reformulate, regardfully, reproachful, requalified, requalifies, superfamily, superficial, superflacks, tearfulness, thankfuller, ultrafiches, unclarified, unfaltering, unfavorable. | |
| 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)45 61 72 66 75 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .- .-. ..-. ..- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100001 01110010 01100110 01110101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E a r f u l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0061 0072 0066 0075 006C |
| 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)396784728778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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