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Potboy

Definition: Potboy

Potboy

Noun

1. (British) a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores.

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

Date "potboy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)


Synonym: Potboy

Synonym: potman (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Potboy

"Potboy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Potboy" is used about 4 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
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

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

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Modern Translation: Potboy

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

Albanian

  

ndihmëskamarier, gotalarës. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otboypay

   

Turkish

  

bar garsonu (saloonkeeper). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Potboy

Derivations

Words beginning with "potboy": potboys. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Potboy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bootboy, Odboy, Pobjoy, pobo, poboy, Pombo, Poorboy, postboy, Potoy. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Potboy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-o-o-p-t-y"

-1 letter: booty.

-2 letters: boot, boyo, toby, toyo, typo.

-3 letters: boo, bop, bot, boy, oot, opt, pot, too, top, toy, yob.

-4 letters: bo, by, op, oy, to, yo.

 Words containing the letters "b-o-o-p-t-y"
 

+1 letter: postboy, potboys.

 

+2 letters: postboys.

 

+3 letters: probatory.

 

+4 letters: phlebotomy.

 

+5 letters: approbatory, paleobotany, polysorbate, prohibitory, reprobatory.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Potboy


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

50 6F 74 62 6F 79

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)

01010000 01101111 01110100 01100010 01101111 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#116 &#98 &#111 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0074 0062 006F 0079

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

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

508186688191

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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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