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Definition: Gusher |
GusherNoun1. An oil well with a strong natural flow so that pumping is not necessary. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | An oil or water well from which the product flows without pumping due to natural or artificially supplied subterranean pressure. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Big Gusher (1951) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Trying to bring in a Texas gusher. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hugh oil gusher at Mooringsport, La. A monstrous column of roaring flame, Star Oil Co. Loucke no. 3, on fire since Aug. 7, 1913 ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | California's great gusher. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Gusher" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gusher" is used about 12 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% | 12 | 101,599 |
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 |
gusher | 102 |
gusher pump | 35 |
gusher job | 17 |
girl gusher | 9 |
cum gusher pill | 9 |
female gusher | 4 |
cum gusher | 4 |
drumright gusher | 3 |
gush gusher gushing ooze orgasm | 3 |
gusher ut | 2 |
gusher whale | 2 |
alert gusher | 2 |
pussy gusher | 2 |
gusher sex | 2 |
gusher sexy | 2 |
geyser gusher | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gusher"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pus nafte (oil well, oiler), fjalaman (chatterbox, chatty, talkative, talker). (various references) | |
Arabic | المتدفق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | склонен към излияния човек, нефтен фонтан. (various references) | |
Czech | kdo překypuje city. (various references) | |
French | puits jaillissant, puits éruptif. (various references) | |
German | sprudelnde petroleumquelle, sprudelnde ölquelle, Springquelle, Schwärmer (dreamer, enthusiast, gushers, hawkmoth, jumping jack, sentimentalist, utopians, visionary, zealot), Förderbohrung (blowing well, flow well, flowing well, fountain, self-flowing well, spouter), Eruptionsbohrung (blowing well, flow well, flowing well, fountain, self-flowing well, spouter), ölquelle (well). (various references) | |
Greek | πετρελαιοπήγαδο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | באר פט (oil well). (various references) | |
Hungarian | áradozó személy, gazdag kőolajforrás. (various references) | |
Indonesian | semburan. (various references) | |
Italian | pozzo petrolifero, pozzo ad eruzione spontanea (blowing well, flow well, flowing well, fountain, naturally flowing well, self-flowing well, spouter), persona esuberante. (various references) | |
Manx | skiooteyder ooill, chibbyr ooill (oil well). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ushergay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | poo de petrleo que jorra abundantemente. (various references) | |
Romanian | teren petrolifer, om expansiv. (various references) | |
Russian | нефтяной фонтан. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | petrolejski izvor. (various references) | |
Spanish | pozo de petróleo (Derrick, oil well), persona muy efusiva. (various references) | |
Swedish | översvallande person. (various references) | |
Turkish | sevgi gösterisinde bulunan tip, fışkıran petrol kuyusu (spouter), abartılı davranan kimse. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | потужний нафтовий фонтан. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người hay thổ lộ tình cảm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gusher": gushers. (additional references) | |
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"Gusher" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Geshe, Gischler, giser, Gishel, goehlert, Gosha, Goshai, Goshal, goshe, goster, Guhirwa, Guihua, Gulsham, gusler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gusher" (pronounced gu"sher) |
| 3 | -u" sh er | crusher, lusher, musher, rusher, usher. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: grues, gursh, huger, shrug, surge, urges, usher. | |
-2 letters: ergs, grue, gush, hers, hues, huge, hugs, regs, resh, rhus, rues, rugs, ruse, rush, suer, sugh, sure, ughs, urge, user. | |
-3 letters: erg, ers, her, hes, hue, hug, reg, res, rue, rug, seg, ser, she, sue, ugh, use. | |
-4 letters: eh, er, es, he, re, sh, uh, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: grushie, gurshes, gushers, gushier, huggers, hungers. | |
+2 letters: bearhugs, burghers, choregus, chuggers, coughers, grouches, grutches, laughers, resought, roughens, roughers, roughest, shrugged, ushering. | |
+3 letters: daughters, grumphies, harangues, hungriest, laughters, ploughers, rehousing, righteous, roughages, roughhews, roughlegs, roughness, sagebrush, slaughter, sloughier, surcharge, theurgies, theurgist, uncharges, upgathers. | |
+4 letters: bushranger, chemurgies, choraguses, choreguses, gaucheries, greenhouse, greyhounds, grouchiest, guacharoes, guardhouse, hamburgers, haranguers, horselaugh, humdingers, hungriness, kieselguhr, languisher, neighbours, otherguess, outcharges, overslaugh, roughdries, roughhouse, roughnecks, shotgunner, shuddering, shutterbug, shuttering, slaughters, sugarhouse, superlight, supertight, surcharged, surcharges, theurgists, thuggeries, unsphering. | |
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