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Germy

Definition: Germy

Germy

Adjective

1. Full of germs or pathological microorganisms; "the water in New York harbor is oily and dirty and germy".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Germy" is a common misspelling or typo for: gamy, gemmy, germ.

Antonym: germfree (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Germy

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Germy

The following table summarizes the usage of "germy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GermyLast name10072,642
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Germy

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  germy

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Germy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-m-r-y"

-1 letter: germ, grey, gyre.

-2 letters: erg, gem, gey, gym, meg, reg, rem, rye.

-3 letters: em, er, me, my, re, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-m-r-y"
 

+1 letter: gremmy.

 

+2 letters: imagery, kerygma.

 

+3 letters: chemurgy, geometry, gramarye, gramercy, kerygmas, meagerly, meagrely.

 

+4 letters: berhyming, clergyman, clergymen, emergency, germanely, gossamery, gramaryes, hypergamy, kerygmata, metrology, pterygium, remedying, synergism, yammering, zymurgies.

 

+5 letters: acromegaly, demography, embryogeny, embryology, gendarmery, germinally, goniometry, gravimetry, gruesomely, gymnosperm, heterogamy, humbuggery, hygrometer, kerygmatic, metallurgy, metrifying, mineralogy, misrelying, mythologer, numerology, overmighty, pigmentary, pterygiums, remarrying, segmentary, semidrying, synergisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Germy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 65 72 6D 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100101 01110010 01101101 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#114 &#109 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 0072 006D 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4171847991

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Names: Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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