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Definitions: Knockabout |
KnockaboutAdjective1. Full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy". 2. Suitable for rough use; "a knockabout overcoat"; "a knockabout old car". Noun1. A sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "knockabout" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Synonym: KnockaboutSynonym: boisterous (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Knockabout |
| English words defined with "knockabout": raceabout. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Smith's Knockabout Theatre (1909) | |
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| "Knockabout" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Knockabout" is used about 23 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% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "knockabout": boisterous knockabout slapstick. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
knockabout stuart | 2 |
francotte knockabout | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "knockabout"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ممثل هزلي (comedian, comic), عنيف (bitter, dragon's, drastic, fell, fierce, gory, heady, impetuous, outrageous, passionate, rabid, rigorous, robust, rough, rude, ruthless, scurrilous, set, severe, sharp, shrewd, smart, stiff, stout, strenuous, stringent, strong, torricellian, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, vehement, violent, volcanic), شراع (canvas, cloth, course, film, rag, sail, sheet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скитник (bum, casual, derelict, drifter, erratic, floater, hobo, itinerant, land-loper, land-louper, nomad, on the wallaby, roadster, roamer, rover, runabout, straggler, swagman, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), работен (hardworking, operating, operational, working), шумен (barbaric, bustling, clamorous, loud, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, rambunctious, raucous, resounding, roaring, robustious, roistering, rollicking, rough and tumble, rowdy, rumbustious, slam-bang, slaphappy, smacking, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), комик в груб фарс, груба шега (harlequinade, rag), груб фарс, всекидневен (commonplace, daily, day to day, everyday, informal, workaday), общ работник (hack, laborer, labourer), малка яхта, малка кола, буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پرسه زدن (Prowl, Ramble, Roam, Rove, Scamp, Swan), نامرتب زندگی کردن , سروصداایجادکردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | umherwerfen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθημερινό φόρεμα, μικρή θαλαμηγόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csetepaté (affray, brush, encounter, medley, melee, rumpus, scrimmage, scrum, skirmish), csavargó (beat, bum, corner-man, gadabout, hobo, hoodlum, jockey, landloper, landlouper, layabout, loiterer, lowlife, outcast, prowler, ranger, roamer, rogue, rover, runabout, runagate, to go for a tramp, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockaboutknay turbulento (bacchic, disorderly, fractious, high, inordinate, noisy, obstruct, rackety, rampageous, Randy, riotous, rowdy, rumbustious, stormy, tempestuous, termagant, turbulent, unquiet), suprimir (Burke, crush, cut, Dele, dissolvent, elimination, exterminate, fadeless, liquidation, obliterate, prune, put down, quash, quell, smother, stop, suppress, throttle, wipe out), ruidoso (altisonant, blatant, jazz, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rampageous, rattling, roistering, uproarious, viatic, windy), rude (abrupt, backwoods, barbaric, boisterous, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, coarse, crude, discourtesy, displeasing, disrobe, got-up, gruff, harsh, homespun, hussar, incondite, larrup, lowly, point blank, raw, rough, rude, rugged, rumbustious, rustic, snippy, tart, tough, unaffable, uncivil, uncouth, uneducated, ungracious, unkind, unnurtured, unpolished, untaught, upstage), irregular (atypical, bumpy, catchy, crenelated, disorderly, erratic, fitful, inequable, informal, inordinate, irregular heartbeat, jaggy, jerky, joggly, jolty, laceration, lawless, occasionalism, ragged, rough, scratchy, snatchy, spotty, unequable, unequal, uneven, wayward), espetáculo barulhento, errante (arrant, devious, errant, erring, excursus, gadder, migratory, nomad, planetary, rambling, strolling, viatic, wandering), barulho (ado, blatancy, bluster, bobbery, chirm, chirp chirrup, clap, clatter, clutter, cracking, din, Donnybrook, fracas, fuss, gale, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurrah, jazz, noise, pother, racket, rattle, roistering, rout, row, rowdyism, ruction, rumpus, shindy, smash, sound, splurge, to-do, tumult, uproar), barulhento (altisonant, blustering, bustling, clamant, clamorous, fussy, howling, judas-colored, judas-coloured, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, Randy, rattling, red, riotous, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, viatic). (various references) urnebesan, jahta (yacht). (various references) yate pecueño, errante (errant, itinerant, stray, wandering), confusión (abashment, baffle, clutter, commotion, confusion, disarray, dislocation, disorganization, distraction, fluster, fog, haziness, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, maze, mess, mix up, mix-up, muddle, mystification, perplexity, pother, puzzlement, shambles, tangle, turmoil, welter), bullicioso (boisterous, bustling, lively, noisy, rambunctious, riotous, rip roaring, rowdy, rumbustious). (various references) oöm (tough), liten enmastad båt, bullrig (noisy), bullersam (clamorous, knock-about, noisy, rackety). (various references) เรือใบลำเล็กๆ. (various references) kaba ve dayanıklı, sapasağlam (as large as life, as sound as bell, copper-bottomed, fit as a fiddle, in perfect health, iron, rude, safe and sound, sound), gürültülü (clamant, clamorous, clangorous, disorderly, hilarious, hurly burly, jazz, loud, noisy, rackety, rambunctious, riotous, roaring, robustious, rumbustious, thundering, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous). (various references) грубий фарс, грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent, uncouth), галасливий (blusterous, blustery, boisterous, clamant, clamorous, hilarious, noisy, obstreperous, open mouthed, rambunctious, rip roaring, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, screamy, wing-ding), бродячий (nomad, nomadic, rambling, rangy, roving, runagate, strolling, vagrant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "knockabout": knockabouts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-k-n-o-o-t-u" | |
-2 letters: knockout. | |
-3 letters: backout, cutbank, outback. | |
-4 letters: bouton, cobnut, toucan, untack. | |
-5 letters: aboon, about, bacon, banco, baton, bucko, bunco, bunko, canto, conto, cotan, count, knack, knock, knout, octan, taboo, tabun. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-k-k-n-o-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: knockabouts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 6E 6F 63 6B 61 62 6F 75 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- -. --- -.-. -.- .- -... --- ..- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01101110 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K n o c k a b o u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 006E 006F 0063 006B 0061 0062 006F 0075 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)45808169776768818786 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, alemão, germanski, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, grego, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, português, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, espanhol, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglês, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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