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Definition: Mudskipper |
MudskipperNoun1. Found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: MudskipperSynonym: mudspringer (n). (additional references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Last Chance To See | Douglas Adams | I suddenly felt, well, terribly old as I watched a mudskipper hopping along with what now seemed to me like a wonderful sense of hopeless, boundless naive optimism. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Mudskipper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mudskipper" is used about 6 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
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 |
mudskipper | 26 |
muddy mudskipper | 6 |
mudskipper picture | 6 |
fish mudskipper | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mudskipper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Czech | hlaváè. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | udskippermay | ||||
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Words beginning with "mudskipper": mudskippers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-k-m-p-p-r-s-u" | |
-3 letters: dippers, duikers, dumpers, dumpier, duskier, kippers, muskier, muspike, predusk, primped, pumpers, repumps, skimped, skipped, skipper, smirked, spumier, umpired, umpires, updries. | |
-4 letters: demurs, dermis, dikers, dimers, dipper, drupes, duiker, dumper, dupers, impure, kermis, kipped, kipper, medius, murids, muskie, perdus, pikers, pimped, pipers, prides, primed, primes, primps, primus, prised, prudes, pumped, pumper, purism, pursed. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-k-m-p-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: mudskippers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 64 73 6B 69 70 70 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- ..- -.. ... -.- .. .--. .--. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01110101 01100100 01110011 01101011 01101001 01110000 01110000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M u d s k i p p e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0075 0064 0073 006B 0069 0070 0070 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47877085777582827184 |
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