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Powder-puff

Definition: Powder-puff

Powder-puff

Adjective

1. Used of competitive activities in which only women take part; "powder-puff baseball"; "a powder-puff football game" powder and shot.

Noun

1. Ammunition consisting of gunpowder and bullets for mus.

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

Date "powder-puff" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)


Usage Frequency: Powder-puff

"Powder-puff" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Powder-puff" 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)75%3202,518
Adjective (general or positive)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Modern Translation: Powder-puff

Language Translations for "powder-puff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

粉末喘". (various references)

   

Korean 

  

분말 내뿜으십시". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owder-puffpay

   

Russian 

  

пуховка (powder puff, powderpuff, puff). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

pudervippa (powder puff, puff). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nùi bông thoa phấn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Powder-puff

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-f-o-p-p-r-u-w"

-3 letters: pouffed.

-4 letters: doffer, duffer, fopped, poufed, pouffe, poured, powder, puffed, puffer, rouped, ruffed.

-5 letters: doper, dower, drupe, duper, offed, offer, pedro, perdu, pored, pouff, power, proud, prude, roped, rowed, ruffe, upped, upper, uredo.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Powder-puff


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

50 6F 77 64 65 72 2D 70 75 66 66

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

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

01010000 01101111 01110111 01100100 01100101 01110010 00101101 01110000 01110101 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#119 &#100 &#101 &#114 &#45 &#112 &#117 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0077 0064 0065 0072 002D 0070 0075 0066 0066

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

5081897071841582877272

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INDEX

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


  

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