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Definition: Peachy |
PeachyAdjective1. (informal) very good; "a bully pulpit"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "peachy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Synonyms: PeachySynonyms: bang-up (adj), bully (adj), corking (adj), cracking (adj), dandy (adj), great (adj), groovy (adj), keen (adj), neat (adj), nifty (adj), not bad(p) (adj), slap-up (adj), smashing (adj), swell (adj). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Peachy keen, jellybean. (Grease; writing credit: Jim Jacobs; Warren Casey) Next thing you know, he'll find you keen and peachy, you know. (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
Lyrics | Would be so peachy before we're too old ("Mr. Sandman"; performing artist: The Chordettes) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Peachy Cobbler (1950) | |
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| "Peachy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peachy" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "peachy": peachy cheeks ♦ peachy smb.. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "peachy": peachy-breasted, peachy-coloured, peachy-keen, peachy-orange. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
peachy | 28 |
korn life is peachy | 11 |
18 peachy | 10 |
just peachy | 8 |
keen peachy | 8 |
life is peachy | 8 |
peachy canyon | 5 |
peachy canyon winery | 4 |
korn life lyrics peachy | 3 |
border collies keen peachy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "peachy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | si pjeshkë, i mrekullueshëm (divine, dreamy, elegant, excellent, fabulous, goluptious, goodly, gorgeous, heavenly, killing, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, nailing, nifty, prodigious, rare, ravishing, remarkable, slapping, spanking, striking, superior, transcendent, unusual, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وشى (blow the whistle, intersperse, malign, nark, rat, rubricate, sing, sneak, snitch, tale, tattle, tell, tell on, tell tales, telltale, traduce), تحدث وراء الشخص, خوخي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | като праскова, отличен (alpha plus, banner, crack, excellent, fine, grand, groovy, immense, master stroke, masterly, mean, nailing, pre eminent, prime, prize, roaring, slick, spanking, splendid, superb, unexceptionable, whizbang, wicked, wizard), много привлекателен, изящен (artistic, artistical, bijou, delicate, delicious, distinguished, minikin, neat, nice, svelte, sylph-like). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | هلوءی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | procédé Peachy (Peachy process), moucharder (peachy smb.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schick (chic, chick, dressy, elegant, fancy, modish, modishly, natty, peachiness, posh, smart, smartly, smartness, sophisticated, spiffy, style, stylish, tony, trendy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έξοχοσ (Dandy, eminent, excellent, fine, high, splendid, splendiferous, sterling, super, swell, tops, worthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hamvas (bloomy, cindery, cindrous), üde (beany, comely, green). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eachypay pessegueiro (peach), macio como um pêssego, da cor de pêssego, aveludado (downy, mellow, sericeous, velvety). (various references) asemãnãtor unei piersici. (various references) приятный (agreeable, cuddly, cushy, dulcet, enjoyable, graceful, grateful, jolly, likable, nice, palatable, pleasant, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, satisfactory, simpatico, soft, sweet-tempered), персиковый. (various references) breskvast. (various references) aterciopelado (velvety). (various references) persikoliknande, finfin (Dandy, rattling, splendid, tiptop, topnotch). (various references) nefis (ambrosial, awfully nice, beautiful, beyond praise, dainty, delectable, delicious, delightly, excellent, exquisite, fine, marvellous, marvelous, scrumptious, stunning, yummy, yum-yum), bir içim su, şeftali rengi, şeftali gibi, çok güzel (adorable, divine, inspired, slashing, spiffing, spiffy, superbly, terrific, two thumbs up, very good). (various references) разючий (amazing, ripping, smashing, snorting), чудовий (a, admirable, adorable, ambrosial, bang up, beautiful, brave, bright, bully, capital, champion, charming, clinking, consummate, crack, Dandy, delectable, delicious, delightful, eminent, excellent, fine, flawless, glorious, goluptious, gorgeous, immense, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, noble, notable, noted, palmary, posh, prime, princely, proper, providential, ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, something like, sovereign, spiffing, superb, super-duper, topping, undeniable, way out, wizard, wonderful), персиковий. (various references) mơn mởn đ o tơ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Peachy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beachie, Demachy, Epehy, Peacey, peachr, peachs, peacy, Pecche, pech, pechi, pecho, peech, Perachi, pesach, Pesch, peuch, piatchy, picchi, Pichi, pouchy, reachy, Speechly, teachy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "peachy" (pronounced pē"khē) |
| 3 | -ē" kh ē | Beachy, beechy, chichi, preachy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-p-y" | |
-1 letter: chape, cheap, peach. | |
-2 letters: ache, achy, cape, caph, chap, chay, each, epha, heap, hype, pace, pech, yeah, yech. | |
-3 letters: ace, ape, aye, cap, cay, cep, hae, hap, hay, hep, hey, hyp, pac, pah, pay, pea, pec, peh, pya, pye, yah, yap, yea, yeh, yep. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, ay, eh, ha, he, pa, pe, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-p-y" | |
+1 letter: cheaply, eparchy, preachy. | |
+2 letters: paycheck, scyphate. | |
+3 letters: archetype, champerty, coryphaei, cymophane, epochally, heptarchy, hyperacid, pachyderm, pachytene, paychecks, pentarchy, phagocyte, preachify, preachily. | |
+4 letters: apothecary, archetypal, archetypes, catchpenny, cheapishly, coryphaeus, cymophanes, hepatocyte, hermatypic, hydrospace, hyperacute, hyperbaric, hypermanic, hyperspace, macrophyte, metaphysic, pachyderms, pachytenes, parenchyma, phagocytes, phylactery, polychaete. | |
+5 letters: anencephaly, aphetically, autocephaly, bathyscaphe, chamaephyte, chrysoprase, cryotherapy, cycadophyte, delphically, dodecaphony, edaphically, geophysical, hepatectomy, hepatocytes, hydrospaces, hyperactive, hyperacuity, hypercapnia, hypercapnic, hypercharge, hyperphagic, hyperspaces, hyperstatic, hypocentral, hypokalemic, hypothecate, lycanthrope, macrophytes, metaphysics, mycophagies, myelopathic, parenchymal, parenchymas, perionychia, phagocytize, phagocytose, phylloclade, polychaetes, preachingly, psychedelia, scenography, spherically, sympathetic. | |
| 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)50 65 61 63 68 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01100001 01100011 01101000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e a c h y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0061 0063 0068 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507167697491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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