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Mugful

Definition: Mugful

Mugful

Noun

1. The quantity that can be held in a mug.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Mugful" is a common misspelling or typo for: manful, mogul.


Synonym: Mugful

Synonym: mug (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Mugful

"Mugful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mugful" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mugful

Language Translations for "mugful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مل ء الفم, ‏مل ء الكوز, ‏المغفل (boob, booby, daw, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, featherbrain, gaby, gander, gawk, idiot, jackass, lout, lunkhead, moron, mug, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numskull, simpleton, sucker, zany). (various references)

   

French

  

tasse pleine de. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

egy korsó. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ugfulmay

   

Russian 

  

полная кружка. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

puna krigla. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Mugful

Derivations

Words beginning with "mugful": mugfuls. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Mugful

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-g-l-m-u-u"

-2 letters: fugu, glum, gulf.

-3 letters: flu, fug, gul, gum, lug, lum, mug, ulu.

-4 letters: mu, um.

 Words containing the letters "f-g-l-m-u-u"
 

+1 letter: mugfuls.

 

+4 letters: unmuffling.

 

+5 letters: outfumbling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mugful


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 75 67 66 75 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..-    --.    ..-.    ..-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01110101 01100111 01100110 01110101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#117 &#103 &#102 &#117 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0075 0067 0066 0075 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

478773728778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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