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Definition: Lindy |
LindyNoun1. An energetic American dance that was popular in the 1930s (probably named for the aviator Charles Lindbergh). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Lindy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "beautiful", "a serpent", "a dragon", "soft", "tender". |
Synonym: LindySynonym: lindy hop (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lindy |
| English words defined with "lindy": lindy hop, Lucky Lindy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'da made that flight to Paris but Lindy beat me to it. (Airmail; writing credit: Dale Van Every; Frank Wead) | |
Movie/TV Titles | When Little Lindy Sang (1916) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Lindy takes place of dead comrade--here are the "three musketeers" of the National Air Races.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Lindy" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "Lindy" is used about 22 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) | 63.64% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 18.18% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 18.18% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lindy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lindy | First name Female | 5,000 | 1,426 |
| Lindy | Last name | 300 | 28,718 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Lindy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "beautiful", "a serpent", "a dragon", "soft", "tender". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Lindy." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Belinda | Female | English | N/A |
| Linda | Female | English | Belinda |
| Linden | Female | English | Linda |
| Lindy | Female | English | Linda |
| Linnie | Female | English | Linda |
| Lynda | Female | English | Linda |
| Lyndi | Female | English | Linda |
| Lynn | Female, Male | English | Linda |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "lindy": lindy hop ♦ lucky Lindy. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lindy": lindy-hop. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lindy booth | 157 | lindy roy | 5 |
lindy | 106 | lindy sports | 5 |
lindy foxx | 84 | football lindy | 5 |
lindy hop | 62 | home lindy motor | 5 |
hop lindy uk | 33 | lindy suit zoot | 5 |
lindy fralin | 33 | electronics lindy | 4 |
lindy rig | 30 | lindy s.com | 4 |
booth lindy nude | 20 | lindy minnesota | 4 |
fralin lindy pickup | 15 | exchange lindy | 4 |
hop lindy swing | 12 | innocent lindy she | 4 |
chamberlain lindy | 11 | foxx free gallery lindy | 4 |
booth lindy picture | 11 | armstrong lindy | 4 |
lindy promotion | 11 | lindy triple | 4 |
lindy little joe | 10 | lindy hemming | 4 |
christopher lindy | 10 | college football lindy | 4 |
booth lindy pic | 9 | lindy magazine | 4 |
lindy star | 7 | fox lindy | 3 |
lindy pen | 7 | lindy star sapphire | 3 |
bowman company lindy | 7 | lindy ring star | 3 |
lucky lindy | 6 | bar lindy | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lindy" (pronounced li"ndē) |
| 4 | -i" n d ē | windy. |
| 3 | -n d ē | attendee, bandy, brandy, Burgundy, candy, Dandy, glissandi, handy, Randy, Sandy, shandy, trendy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-l-n-y" | |
-1 letter: idly, idyl, inly, liny. | |
-2 letters: din, lid, lin, nil, yid, yin. | |
-3 letters: id, in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-l-n-y" | |
+1 letter: dinkly, kindly. | |
+2 letters: blindly, bylined, dandily, dicliny, dingily, handily, indoxyl, ladykin, needily, snidely, spindly, windily, xylidin, yodling. | |
+3 letters: bodingly, candidly, cylinder, daintily, dallying, daringly, delaying, deniably, diphenyl, divinely, dollying, dotingly, friendly, hiddenly, indignly, indoxyls, inwardly, ladykins, maidenly, medianly, nodality, rancidly, syndical, trendily, unitedly, unkindly, untidily, unwieldy, vendibly, wingedly, xylidine, xylidins, yielding, yodeling. | |
+4 letters: abidingly, adoringly, amplidyne, amygdalin, beladying, bindingly, bloodying, condignly, condyloid, cylinders, cylindric, damningly, darlingly, dashingly, defiantly, definably, denyingly, deploying, dialysing, dialyzing, dilatancy, diphenyls, distantly, diurnally, donnishly, droningly, dynamical, evidently, fairyland, hedgingly, hypnoidal, inaudibly, indelibly, insipidly, invalidly, jointedly, kiddingly, languidly, mindfully, niggardly, nymphalid, pointedly, pycnidial, radiantly, synodical, unhandily, xylidines, yodelling. | |
| 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)4C 69 6E 64 79 |
| 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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