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Definitions: Plaguey |
PlagueyAdjective1. Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguelike diseases"; "plaguey fevers". 2. Causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong". Adverb1. In a disagreeable manner; "it's so plaguey cold!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "plaguey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1765. (references) |
Synonyms: PlagueySynonyms: annoying (adj), bothersome (adj), galling (adj), irritating (adj), nettlesome (adj), pesky (adj), pestering (adj), pestiferous (adj), pestilent (adj), pestilential (adj), plaguelike (adj), plaguy (adj), teasing (adj), vexatious (adj), vexing (adj), plaguily (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Plaguey |
| English words defined with "plaguey": annoying ♦ bothersome ♦ galling ♦ irritating ♦ nettlesome ♦ pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguily, plaguy ♦ teasing ♦ vexatious, vexing. (references) |
| "Plaguey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Plaguey" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "plaguey": annoying galling chafing irritating nettlesome pesky pestiferous pestilent plaguy plaguey teasing vexatious vexing. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "plaguey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | assommant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agueyplay latoso (annoying, tedious), fastidioso (annoying, bothering, bothersome, fastidious, irksome, irritating, pestiferous, plaguy, troublesome, trying, wearisome, weary). (various references) irriterande (annoying, excruciating, irksome, irritant, irritants, irritating, irritative, maddening, nettlesome, pestilent, pestilential, plaguy, sickening, vexatious, worrisome), besvärlig (annoying, awkward, bothersome, cumbersome, cumbrous, difficult, incommodious, pestiferous, plaguesome, plaguy, sticky, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, warm, worrisome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pestifer. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-p-u-y" | |
-1 letter: plague, plaguy. | |
-2 letters: agley, gluey, gulpy, layup, plage. | |
-3 letters: agly, ague, egal, gale, gape, gapy, gley, glue, gulp, leap, luge, page, pale, paly, peag, peal, play, plea, plug, pula, pule, ugly, yaup, yelp, yuga, yule. | |
-4 letters: age, ale, alp, ape, aye, eau, gae, gal, gap, gay, gel, gey, gul, guy, gyp, lag, lap, lay. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-p-u-y" | |
+4 letters: repugnantly. | |
+5 letters: inexpugnably, pneumatology, rampageously, underplaying. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6C 61 67 75 65 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-.. .- --. ..- . -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101100 01100001 01100111 01110101 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P l a g u e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006C 0061 0067 0075 0065 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50786773877191 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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