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Home-cured

Definition: Home-cured

Home-cured

Adjective

1. Cured at home; "home-cured hams".

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

 

Synonym: Home-cured

Synonym by domain: home cure based on mineral water (medicine).

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Photo Album: Home-cured

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Mr. Foster with home-cured meat. Irwinville Farms, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Son of agricultural day laborer with his twenty-two caliber rifle and home-cured tobacco. McIntosh County, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Home-cured

"Home-cured" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Home-cured" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Home-cured

Language Translations for "home-cured"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

selbstgebeizt. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ome-curedhay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Home-cured

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-m-o-r-u"

-2 letters: chromed, cohered, decorum, euchred, homered, humored, mouched, ochered.

-3 letters: cheder, cheero, chored, chrome, cohere, demure, douche, echoed, echoer, emerod, euchre, meoued, ochred, ouched, recode, reduce, reecho, rouche, ruched.

-4 letters: ceder, cered, cheer, chemo, chord, chore, coder, comer, cored, coude, credo, creed, creme, crude, cured, decor, demur, deuce, douce, duroc, eched, educe, erode, heder.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-h-m-o-r-u"
 

+5 letters: countermarched, uncomprehended.

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

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