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Hoofing

Definition: Hoofing

Hoofing

Noun

1. Dancing in which the steps are more important than gestures or postures.

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

 

Synonym: Hoofing

Synonym: step dancing (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Hoofing

"Hoofing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hoofing" is used about 3 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%3202,518

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hoofing

Derivations

Words ending with "hoofing": whoofing. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Hoofing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doofing, hooing, hooning, oofing, Shaofang, whoofing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Hoofing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-g-h-i-n-o-o"

-1 letter: oohing.

-2 letters: gonif, gonof, ohing.

-3 letters: fino, fohn, foin, goof, goon, hong, hoof, info, nigh.

-4 letters: fig, fin, fog, foh, fon, ghi, gin, goo, hin, hog, hon, ion, nog, noh, noo, oho, ooh.

-5 letters: go, hi, ho, if, in, no, of, oh, on.

 Words containing the letters "f-g-h-i-n-o-o"
 

+1 letter: whoofing.

 

+3 letters: hotfooting.

 

+4 letters: foreshowing, forthcoming.

 

+5 letters: mothproofing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Hoofing


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

48 6F 6F 66 69 6E 67

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)

....    ---    ---    ..-.    ..    -.    --.

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

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

01001000 01101111 01101111 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

H o o f i n g

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 006F 0066 0069 006E 0067

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

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

42818172758073

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