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Definition: Guvnor |
GuvnorNoun1. (British slang) boss. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "guvnor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1890. (references) |
| "Guvnor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Guvnor" 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 |
marshall guvnor | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "guvnor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fater (father, guv, old man, pater, pop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uvnorgay господин (baboo, governor, guv, mister, monsieur, mr., overlord). (various references) farsa (dad, guv), chef (boss, chief, commander, director, executive, governor, guv, head, leader, manager). (various references) patron (baas, boss, chief, dress pattern, employer, governor, guv, leader, magnate, nibs, old man, patron, patronizer, pattern, the governor, top dog), müdür (administrator, clerk, director, gaffer, governor, guv, head, intendant, manager, provost, supervisor, vice president, warden), efendi (arbiter, baas, baboo, blushing, guv, husband, Lord, master, seigneur, Sir, well mannered, well-behaved), baba (begetter, dad, daddy, father, goodman, governor, guv, old man, pa, Papa, pater, Pere, pop, senior, sire, the governor, the old man), şef (captain, chef, chief, clerk, commander, gaffer, general, guv, head, headman, principal, supervisor, taskmaster, top dog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-n-o-r-u-v" | |
-2 letters: rung. | |
-3 letters: gnu, gor, gun, guv, nog, nor, our, rug, run, urn, vug. | |
-4 letters: go, no, nu, on, or, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-n-o-r-u-v" | |
+2 letters: hungover, overhung. | |
+3 letters: devouring, favouring, outraving, overswung, overusing, savouring, vapouring. | |
+4 letters: flavouring, outbraving, outdriving, outserving, overbuying, overcuring, overruling, overstrung, overturing, overurging, uncovering, unforgiven, viraginous, vouchering. | |
+5 letters: aboveground, granivorous, manoeuvring, outrivaling, outsavoring, overburning, overcutting, overdubbing, overfunding, overhauling, overhunting, overindulge, overissuing, overpumping, overruffing, overrunning, oversaucing, oversudsing, oversupping, overturning, overvaluing, unforgiving, vertiginous. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 75 76 6E 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. ..- ...- -. --- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110101 01110110 01101110 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G u v n o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0075 0076 006E 006F 0072 |
| 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)418788808184 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | magyar, венгр, венгерский, ungrare, macarca, macar |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | orosz, русский, ryss, Rusça |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | svéd, шведский, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | török, турецкий, turkisk, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | angol, английский, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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