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Definition: Megrim |
MegrimNoun1. A severe recurring vascular headache; occur more frequently in women than men. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "megrim" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: MegrimSynonyms: hemicrania (n), migraine (n), sick headache (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: whiffed (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
Crosswords: Megrim |
| English words defined with "megrim": Scaldfish. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Megrim" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (megrim). |
| 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 |
megrim | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "megrim"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | migrenë (migraine). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | каприз (caprice, crank, fad, fancy, fit, freak, maggot, quirk, vagary, vagrancy, whimsy, whim-wham), мигрена (migraine), прищявка (caprice, crotchet, fad, fizgig, kink, maggot, vagary, whim, whimsy, whim-wham). (various references) | |
Czech | migréna (migraine), vrtoch (fancy, freak, vagary, whim), rozmar (caprice, fantasy, freak, vagary, whim). (various references) | |
Danish | glashvarre (sail-fluke, whiff), almindelig glashvarre (sail-fluke, whiff). (various references) | |
Dutch | megrim (carter meg, sail fluke, west coast sole, whiff, white sole), steenschulle (carter meg, sail fluke, west coast sole, whiff, white sole), steenscharre (carter meg, sail fluke, west coast sole, whiff, white sole), schotse schol (carter meg, sail fluke, sail-fluke, west coast sole, whiff, white sole), schartong (carter meg, sail fluke, west coast sole, whiff, white sole), scharretong (carter meg, sail fluke, sail-fluke, west coast sole, whiff, white sole). (various references) | |
Finnish | lasikampela (sail-fluke, whiff). (various references) | |
French | megrim, limande salope, cardine franche, cardine, \MEG. (various references) | |
German | Migram (sail-fluke, whiff), Scheefsnut (sail-fluke, whiff), Glasbutt (sail-fluke, whiff), Flügelbutt (sail-fluke, whiff), Blindling (sail-fluke, whiff), Blendling (sail-fluke, whiff). (various references) | |
Greek | γλώσσα (language, lingo, plaice, sole, tongue), ημικρανία (migraine, sick, sick headache), ζαγκέτα (sail-fluke, whiff). (various references) | |
Hungarian | migrén (blinding headache, migraine). (various references) | |
Italian | rombo giallo (sail-fluke, whiff). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egrimmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hemicrania (hemicrania), hemialgia (hemicrania), enxaqueca (headache, migraine), areeiro (riffler, sail-fluke, sand distributor, sander, sandtable, whiff). (various references) | |
Romanian | migrenã (headache, migraine), urât (abominable, bad, badly, boredom, dirty, ennui, filthy, foul, haggish, hateful, hideous, ill-featured, little, low, naughty, opprobrious, sour, squalid, tedium, ugly, unbecoming, unfairly, unsightly, vicious, villainous, wicked), proastã dispoziţie (huffiness, ill humor, ill humour, melancholy, moodiness, mumps, spleen), durere de cap (headache, migraine). (various references) | |
Russian | мигрень (brow-ague, migraine, sick headache). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | migrena (migraine). (various references) | |
Spanish | migraña (migraine), gallo (boss, chanticleer, dory, expert, rooster). (various references) | |
Swedish | glasvar (sail-fluke, whiff). (various references) | |
Turkish | migren (migraine, sick headache), başağrısı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | мігрень (brow-ague, migraine), примха (buzz, caprice, fad, fancy, fantasy, freak, maggot, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsey, whimsy), поганий настрій (grouch, grumps, ill humor, ill humour, pip, sulk). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ý ngông cu"ng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Lepidorhombus megastoma, Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis, Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (Walbaum,1792). (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "megrim": megrims. (additional references) | |
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"Megrim" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: egrim, Imigram, Maigrin, Mcgrail, Mcguin, megera, Meghir, Megin, meglio, megro, megry, Menghin, mergan, mergy, Meriem, merik, metrohm, Meyrin, Migril, mirum, misrim, Morgrim, murgi, Mydrim, negram, Neguib, nigram, nigri. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-m-m-r" | |
-1 letter: gimme, grime, mimer. | |
-2 letters: emir, germ, grim, mime, mire, rime. | |
-3 letters: erg, gem, gie, ire, meg, mem, mig, mim, mir, reg, rei, rem, rig, rim. | |
-4 letters: em, er, me, mi, mm, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-m-m-r" | |
+1 letter: gammier, gemmier, glimmer, gremmie, grimmer, gummier, immerge, megrims. | |
+2 letters: aglimmer, glimmers, gremmies, grimmest, immerged, immerges. | |
+3 letters: begrimmed, germanium, glimmered, hammering, immerging, immersing, immigrate, mammering, multigerm, rehemming, scrimmage, simmering, summering, yammering. | |
+4 letters: begrimming, commercing, diagrammed, germaniums, glimmering, immigrated, immigrates, memorising, memorizing, microimage, mimeograph, misterming, retrimming, scrimmaged, scrimmager, scrimmages, seismogram, shimmering, stammering, trammeling. | |
+5 letters: bemurmuring, gimmickries, glimmerings, ideogrammic, lammergeier, magisterium, merrymaking, mesmerising, mesmerizing, microgamete, microimages, micromanage, mimeographs, mismarriage, pretrimming, rehammering, reimmersing, remembering, resummoning, scrimmagers, seismograms, trammelling. | |
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