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Definitions: Kelpie |
KelpieNoun1. (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders. 2. An Australian sheepdog with pointed ears. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "kelpie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Kelpie or ~~~Kelpy. Kelpy. A spirit of the waters in the form of a horse, in Scottish mythology. Not unlike the Irish Phooka. (See Fairy.) "Every lake has its Kelpie or Water-horse, often seen by the shepherd sitting upon the brow of a rock, dashing along the surface of the deep, or browsing upon the pasture on its verge." - Graham: Sketches of Perthshire. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: KelpieSynonym: kelpy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Jupiter | Allah, Bathala, Brahm, Brahma, Brahma, cloud-compeller, Devi, Durga, Kali, oread, the Great Spirit, Ushas; water nymph, wood nymph; Yama, Varuna, Zeus; Vishnu, Siva, Shiva, Krishna, Juggernath, Buddha; Isis, Osiris, Ra; Belus, Bel, Baal, Asteroth; Thor, Odin; Mumbo Jumbo; good genius, tutelary genius; demiurge, familiar; sibyl; fairy, fay; sylph, sylphid; Ariel, peri, nymph, nereid, dryad, seamaid, banshee, benshie, Ormuzd; Oberon, Mab, hamadryad, naiad, mermaid, kelpie, Ondine, nixie, sprite; denizens of the air; pixy; (bad spirit). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Kelpie |
| Specialty definitions using "kelpie": Phooka ♦ River Demon. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Kelpie" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "Kelpie" is used about 13 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 (proper) | 69.23% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 30.77% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | 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 |
kelpie | 88 |
australian kelpie | 64 |
kelpie dog | 21 |
australia kelpie | 5 |
art kelpie | 4 |
kelpie legend | 3 |
australian kelpie dog | 2 |
kelpie rescue | 2 |
fci kelpie tan | 2 |
australian kelpie picture | 2 |
kelpie picture | 2 |
breed dog kelpie | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "kelpie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | الكالب جان بحري. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | δαιμόνιο των υδάτω με μορφή ίππου (kelpy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | simaszőrű hegyes fülű ausztráliai juhászkutya (australian kelpie). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | cabbyl ushtey (water horse), cabbyl oie. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | elpiekay at şeklinde deniz perisi, çoban köpeği (bandog, sheepdog, shepherd's dog). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "kelpie": kelpies. (additional references) | |
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"Kelpie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Keelie, Keepie, kelpe, Kelpy, Kepier, Kleetie, Kulmie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-k-l-p" | |
-1 letter: kelep. | |
-2 letters: keel, keep, kelp, kepi, leek, leke, like, lipe, peek, peel, peke, pele, pike, pile, plie. | |
-3 letters: eel, eke, elk, ilk, kep, kip, lee, lei, lek, lie, lip, pee, pie. | |
-4 letters: el, li, pe, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-k-l-p" | |
+1 letter: apelike, kelpies, pealike, peglike. | |
+2 letters: epiclike, hemplike, peaklike, pickerel, pinelike, pipelike, poetlike, popelike, ropelike, spikelet, steplike, tapelike. | |
+3 letters: grapelike, petallike, pickerels, platelike, purselike, sheeplike, sleeplike, spikelets, spikelike, spinelike. | |
+4 letters: besprinkle, enkephalin, leukopenia, leukopenic, periwinkle, pincerlike, planetlike, powderlike, puppetlike, spiderlike. | |
+5 letters: besprinkled, besprinkles, enkephalins, forcepslike, hyperlinked, leukopenias, periwinkles, phoenixlike, placekicked, placekicker, sprinklered, trumpetlike. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 65 6C 70 69 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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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)01001011 01100101 01101100 01110000 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K e l p i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0065 006C 0070 0069 0065 |
| 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)457178827571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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