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Definition: Marshmallow |
MarshmallowNoun1. Spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "marshmallow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Paste made similarly to the tart paste but is less compact than other pastry dough. The--is used for tarts and special kind of sugared and salted cakes. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Marshmallow |
| English words defined with "marshmallow": marshmallow fluff. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "marshmallow": angel kiss ♦ DEPOSITING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ filling-machine operator ♦ marshmallow-machine worker ♦ spreading-machine operator. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Marshmallow" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (marshmallow). |
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Screenplays | Yeah, we conjured up a hundred-foot marshmallow man, blew the top three floors off an uptown high-rise, and ended up getting sued by every city, county, and agency in New York. (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) You look like a bear wearing a marshmallow. (Final Fantasy VII; writing credit: Kouze Ide; Kazushige Nojima) Because that pipe doesn't go to the marshmallow rooom! (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl) | |
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| "Marshmallow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Marshmallow" 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 71.43% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "marshmallow": chocolate marshmallow ♦ marshmallow fluff. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "marshmallow": marshmallow-size, marshmallow-white. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "marshmallow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | alte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | градинска ружа, бяла ружа, бонбон от бяла ружа. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 蛋白软糖. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ibišek (hibiscus, marsh mallow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | laege-stokrose (marsh-mallow), butterdej (short pastry), althea (marsh-mallow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kruimeldeeg (short pastry), heemst (marsh-mallow), brokkeldeeg (short pastry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نوعی شیرینی خمیرمانند, گل ختمی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | murotaikina (short pastry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | guimauve (marsh-mallow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | marshmallow (marsh mallow), Mürbeteig (short pastry), honigzucker, Eibisch (hibiscus, marsh-mallow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mályvacukor, orvosi ziliz (common mallow), fehérmályva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pasta frolla (short pastry), altea (marsh mallow, marsh-mallow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | マグマ溜り (Macedonia, machine, machine gun, machine language, machine-room, machine-vision, magma reservoir, Maserati, Massachusetts, McGraw Hill, mother complex, Mother Goose, mother tape, mothering, motherland, Mother's Day, Oedipus complex, sexual attraction to one's mother). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | マシュマロ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 마시맬로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arshmallowmay massa quebrada (short pastry), malvaísco (marsh mallow, marsh-mallow), alteia (hollyhock, marsh-mallow, marshy). (various references) алтей аптечный (marsh mallow). (various references) vrsta slatkiša (hardbake), beli slez. (various references) malvavisco (Cuba jute, Escobilla, Malvaisco, marsh-mallow, Queensland hemp, Sida). (various references) altea. (various references) lokuma benzer şekerleme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Althaea officinalis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "marshmallow": marshmallows, marshmallowy. (additional references) | |
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"Marshmallow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: marschmallow, marshmallo, marshmallon, marshmellow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "marshmallow" (pronounced mÄ"rshme'lō) |
| 3 | -e' l ō | bedfellow. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-h-l-l-m-m-o-r-s-w" | |
-3 letters: marshall. | |
-4 letters: halloas, hallows, hammals, mallows, marshal, mollahs, shallow, wallahs. | |
-5 letters: alamos, alarms, allows, almahs, alohas, amoral, aromas, ashlar, ashram, aswarm, halloa, hallos, hallow, halmas, hamals, hammal, hollas, lahars, llamas, malars, mallow, molars, mollah, morals, sallow, shalom, slalom, wallah, wallas, whammo, whorls. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-h-l-l-m-m-o-r-s-w" | |
+1 letter: marshmallows, marshmallowy. | |
| 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)4D 61 72 73 68 6D 61 6C 6C 6F 77 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-. ... .... -- .- .-.. .-.. --- .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110010 01110011 01101000 01101101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a r s h m a l l o w |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0072 0073 0068 006D 0061 006C 006C 006F 0077 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767848574796778788189 |
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