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Definition: Grovelling |
GrovellingAdjective1. Totally submissive. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grovelling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Synonyms: GrovellingSynonyms: cringing (adj), groveling (adj), wormlike (adj), wormy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Grovelling |
| English words defined with "grovelling": Earthbred. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grovelling": cruncha cruncha cruncha ♦ exabyte, examining the entrails ♦ secondary damage. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "grovelling": grovel. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Grovelling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 73.91% of the time. "Grovelling" is used about 23 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 73.91% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.39% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
grovelling | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "grovelling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | kriecherisch (bootlicking, fawning, servile, smarmy, sycophantic). (various references) | |
Hungarian | talpnyaló (adulator, bootlicker, crawler, fawning, minion, pipsqueak, slimy, spaniel, sycophant, sycophantic, toad-eater, toady), csúszó-mászó (groveling, slimy, sneaky). (various references) | |
Italian | vile (base, caitiff, cowardly, dastard, filthy, groveling, ignoble, low, mean, scurvy, sneaking, vile, worthless), strisciante (creeping, cringing, groveling, reptant, unctuous), abietto (abject, base, degraded, despicable, groveling, low, unrighteous, vile). (various references) | |
Manx | sleaghtaghey (grovel, kneel, kneeling, prostrate, slide), sleaghtagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ovellinggray.(various references) | |
Romanian | umilit (humble, in the dust), târâtor (crawling, creeping, creepy, cringing, decumbent, prostrate, reptile), sordid (blowsy, sordid, sordidly, squalid), slugarnic (cringing, hat in hand, obsequious, servile, slavish, slimy, submissive, supple, toad-eating), mizerabil (abject, despicable, dirty, godforsaken, miserable, miserably, pitiable, unlucky, villainous, wretch, wretched), mârşav (despicable, dirty, infamous, mean, scummy, shameful, skunk), josnic (abject, base, base-minded, despicable, dirty, grubby, infamous, little, low, low-minded, mean, meanly, nasty, paltry, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, slavish, sordid, sordidly, vile). (various references) | |
Scottish | luaireagan (a grovelling person). (various references) | |
Swedish | krypande (crawl, creep, creeping, creepy, cringing, decumbent, obsequious, procumbent, servile, sycophantic). (various references) | |
Turkish | rezil (abject, contemptible, crud, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, flagrant, groveling, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, low down, outrageous, raffish, rascal, scandal, scandalous, scoundrel, shameful, sinner, stinking, sweep, vile, villainous), adi (abject, base, camp, campy, cheap jack, chintzy, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, everyday, groveling, gutter, hackneyed, jerkwater, little, low, low class, mean, measly, no class, one horse, ordinary, ornery, picayune, picayunish, poky, rubbishy, shoddy, slavish, sleazy, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vile, vulgar, wormy, yellow dog), aşağılık (abject, base, baseness, contemptible, dirty, groveling, ignoble, ignominious, inferiority, low down, lowness, mean, no class, no good, pettiness, petty, rascally, reptilian, scabby, scurvy, slavish, snotty, sordid, tinpot, unutterable, unworthy, vile, wicked, wormy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quy nạp, liếm gót (reptile), khom lưng uốn gối. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-i-l-l-n-o-r-v" | |
-1 letter: groveling. | |
-2 letters: livelong. | |
-3 letters: gelling, gloving, loggier, niggler, overing, rolling, verging. | |
-4 letters: eloign, enroll, eringo, giller, ginger, glover, goring, govern, grille, gringo, grovel, ignore, leggin, legion, legong, linger, logger, loggie, logier, longer, loving, neroli, niello, niggle, ogling, region, renvoi, roving, voling. | |
-5 letters: eloin, enrol, envoi, ervil, genro, giron, given, giver, glove, going, goner, gorge, grego. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-i-l-l-n-o-r-v" | |
+1 letter: grovelingly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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