No-good

Definitions: No-good

No-good

Adjective

1. Without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk".

2. (informal) "a rubber check"; "a no-good check".

Date "no-good" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references)

Synonyms: No-good

Synonyms: good-for-naught (adj), good-for-nothing (adj), meritless (adj), no-account (adj), no-count (adj), rubber (adj), sorry (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: No-good

English words defined with "no-good": good-for-naught, good-for-nothing ♦ meritless ♦ no-account, no-count ♦ rubber ♦ sorry. (references)

Specialty definitions using "no-good": guiltware. (references)

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Modern Usage: No-good

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Why, you slimy, double-crossing, no-good swindler! (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett) I'm gonna give ya, to the count of ten, to get your ugly, yella, no-good keester off my property. (Home Alone; writing credit: John Hughes)
Movie/TV Titles	The No-Good Guy (1916)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: No-good

"No-good" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "No-good" is used about 11 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	11	106,044

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

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Expressions: No-good

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "no-good": no-good-crying-over-spilt-milk, no-good-jobs.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: No-good

Language		Translations for "no-good"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		废物 (refuse, Waste). (various references)

Korean		�"�모 없�" 사람. (various references)

Pig Latin		o-goodnay

Thai		แย่, ไม่�"ี. (various references)

Turkmen		warak (worthless). (various references)

Vietnamese		người vô tích sự vật vô giá trị, vật vô dụng (cast-off, nullity). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: No-good

Misspellings
	"No-good" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nugud. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: No-good

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-g-n-o-o-o"
	-2 letters: dong, good, goon.
	-3 letters: dog, don, god, goo, nod, nog, noo.
	-4 letters: do, go, no, od, on.
	Words containing the letters "d-g-n-o-o-o"
	+1 letter: godroon.
	+2 letters: godroons.
	+3 letters: hoodooing, mongoloid, voodooing.
	+4 letters: boondoggle, demonology, deontology, groundwood, mongoloids, orangewood.
	+5 letters: boondoggled, boondoggler, boondoggles, foredooming, groundwoods, orangewoods, woodworking.
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