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Definition: Manhandle |
ManhandleVerb1. Handle roughly; "I was manhandled by the police". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "manhandle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Note: Manhandle \Man*han"dle\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle -handled; present participle verb or noun -handling.]. (Websters 1913) |
| "Manhandle" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Manhandle" is used about 14 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 85.71% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | 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 |
manhandle | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "manhandle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trajtoj me ashpërsi, lëviz me dorë (handle), keqtrajtoj (ill treat, ill use, maltreat, mistreat, persecute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حرك باليد, عامل بخشونة (rebuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отнасям се грубо с (mishandle), малтретирам (abuse, bully, ill treat, ill use, maltreat, mishandle, mistreat, misuse, rough up, work over), придвижвам с ръце, помествам с ръце. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 人工推动. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zaházet s kým brutálnì, přemístit (displace, move, relocate, remove, switch round, transfer, translocate, transpose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | باخشونت اداره کردن , بدرفتاری کردن (Maltreat, Misbehave, Mistreat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | repostella jotakin (handle roughly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | maltraiter (maltreat), malmener (maltreat, maul). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unsanft behandeln, hieven (board the net, haul in, haul up, heave, hoist), grob behandeln. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κακομεταχειρίζομαι (ill treat, ill use, maltreat, mishandle, mistreat, misuse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"זיז בכח, ל" יע י" ית, לטפל ב'סות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megtépáz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | muovere a mano, manovrare (control, handle, manage, maneuver, manipulate, manoeuvre, scheme, steer, work), maltrattare (abuse, ill treat, ill use, knock around, maltreat, mishandle, roughhouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lauesaghey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anhandlemay maltratar (abuse, bully, fibber, ill treat, illusion, maltreat, maul, mishandle, mistreated, misuse, mob), tratar com rudeza (illuminant, mishandle), tinhoso (itchy). (various references) тащить (daggle, drag, draw, haul, lug, pull, schlepp, tote, toted, toting, tow, tug), передвигать вручную. (various references) maltertirati (mistreat), ručno prenositi. (various references) mover a brazo, maltratar (abuse, bang about, batter about, ill treat, ill use, knock about, maltreat, maul, mishandle, mistreat, misuse, pull about, punish). (various references) flytta (check out, displace, edge, leave, migrate, move, move house, remove, resettle, shift, shunt, transfer), behandla omilt. (various references) tartaklamak (peck at smb.), kol gücü ile yapmak, kaba kuvvete başvurmak (resort to force). (various references) пересувати вручну. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "manhandle": manhandled, manhandles. (additional references) | |
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"Manhandle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: manhede. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "manhandle" (pronounced ma"nha'ndul) |
| 8 | -a" n h a' n d u l | panhandle. |
| 4 | -n d u l | bindle, Brindle, bundle, candle, dwindle, fondle, handle, kindle, mishandle, rekindle, Rundle, sandal, scandal, spindle, swindle, trundle, unbundle, vandal, Windle. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, befuddle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, caboodle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cradle, cuddle, dawdle, Doodle, feudal, fiddle, genocidal, girdle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, intermodal, intertidal, ladle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, modal, model, mollycoddle, muddle, needle, noodle, paddle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, puddle, pyramidal, remodel, rhizoidal, riddle, Ruddle, saddle, Seidel, sidle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, tidal, toddle, twaddle, Tweedle, twiddle, Waddle, Wedel, widdle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-l-m-n-n" | |
-2 letters: headman, landman, landmen, leadman. | |
-3 letters: anadem, anneal, haemal, handle, lamedh, maenad, manned. | |
-4 letters: aahed, adman, admen, ahead, aland, alane, almah, almeh, amend, annal, daman, eland, hadal, haled, halma, hamal, hemal, henna, laden, lamed, leman, maned, manna, medal, menad, naled, named. | |
-5 letters: ahem, alae, alan, alma, alme, amah, amen, anal, anna, dahl, dale, dame, damn, deal, dean, dhal, elan, hade, haed, haem, haen, hale, halm, hame, hand, head, heal, held, helm, lade, lama, lame, land, lane, lead, lean, lend, made, male, mana, mane, mead, meal, mean, meld, mend, naan, nada, name, nana, nema. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-h-l-m-n-n" | |
+1 letter: manhandled, manhandles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6E 68 61 6E 64 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -. .... .- -. -.. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101110 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a n h a n d l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006E 0068 0061 006E 0064 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476780746780707871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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