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Prancer

Definition: Prancer

Prancer

Noun

1. A mettlesome or fiery horse.

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


Specialty Definition: Prancer

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

PRANCER. A horse. Prancer's nab.; a horse's head, used as a seal to a counterfeit pass. At the sign of the prancer's poll, i.e. the nag's head. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Crosswords: Prancer

Specialty definitions using "prancer": RUM PRANCER. (references)

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Modern Usage: Prancer

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Dancer, Prancer, Blitzen, and Fink. (The Bullwinkle Show; writing credit: Allan Burns; Chris Hayward)

Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen! (Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town; writing credit: Romeo Muller)

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

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Commercial Usage: Prancer

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Prancer

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

prancer

7
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Modern Translation: Prancer

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

Greek 

  

αναπηδών (recoiler), ορθούμενοσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

táncoló ló, ágaskodó ló. (various references)

   

Manx

  

jolteyder, joltagh (prancing, traversing, weaving). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ancerpray

   

Russian 

  

скакун (jumper). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Prancer

Derivations

Words beginning with "prancer": prancers. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Prancer"

Words rhyming with "prancer" (pronounced 'Pran"cer'): Adducer, Advancer, Amercer, Announcer, Bouncer, Bracer, Convincer, Dancer, Defacer, Embracer, Fleecer, Forcer, grocer, inducer, lancer, macer, mercer, mincer, PACER, Piecer, Producer, Pronouncer, Racer, Rejoicer, Renouncer, Romancer, saucer, Searcer, seducer, Shicer, Sicer, slicer, Spicer, traducer, Wincer. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Prancer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-p-r-r"

-1 letter: carper, prance.

-2 letters: arpen, caner, caper, carer, crane, crape, nacre, pacer, parer, pecan, racer, rance, raper, recap, reran.

-3 letters: acne, acre, aper, cane, cape, care, carn, carp, carr, crap, earn, nape, narc, neap, near, pace, pane, pare, parr, pean, pear, race, rape, rare, reap, rear.

-4 letters: ace, ane, ape, arc, are, can, cap, car.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-p-r-r"
 

+1 letter: parcener, prancers.

 

+2 letters: carpenter, carpentry, copartner, parcenary, parceners, procreant.

 

+3 letters: carpenters, coparcener, copartners, pericrania, pronuclear, reprobance, ropedancer, scarpering.

 

+4 letters: carpentered, carpentries, chairperson, chiropteran, coparcenary, coparceners, copartnered, counterpart, incorporate, incorporeal, parcenaries, performance, pericranial, pericranium, preclearing, precreasing, preromantic, procreating, procreation, procrustean, recapturing, recarpeting, renographic, reproaching, reprobances, ropedancers, transpierce.

 

+5 letters: anchorperson, cameraperson, carpentering, chairpersons, chiropterans, contemporary, copartnering, counterparts, craftsperson, iconographer, incorporable, incorporated, incorporates, intercompare, noncorporate, performances, perichondral, perichondria, perseverance, practitioner, precancerous, precentorial, preclearance, procarbazine, procreations, protuberance, reappearance, recuperating, recuperation, repurchasing, scenographer, superorganic, transparence, transparency, transpierced, transpierces, trichopteran.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Prancer


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

50 72 61 6E 63 65 72

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 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0061 006E 0063 0065 0072

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

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

50846780697184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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