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Definition: Pummel |
PummelVerb1. Strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pummel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Pummel or ~~~Pommel. Pommel. To beat black and blue. (French, pommeler, to dapple.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | A shaped extension on the end of a piercing or blanking punch used for locating a component in a follow-on tool after an initial piercing operation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PummelSynonyms: biff (v), pommel (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Punishment | Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye. |
Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pummel |
| Non-English Usage: "Pummel" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (dumpling, pudding, roly poly). |
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Screenplays | The ability to witness two men stand toe to toe in the spirit of sportsmanship and pummel each other into insensibility is what separates us from the animals. (Taxi; writing credit: Grahame Bond; Jim Burnett) Because returning the runt was your idea, because you're small and insignificant, and because I'll pummel you if you don't! (Ice Age; writing credit: Michael Berg) | |
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 | Punch; punching bag; violence; violent; fighting; fight; hit; hitting; bash; belt; biff; blow; bop; box; buffet; clip; clout; cuff; dig; jab; jog; knock; lollop; nudge; one-two; plug; plunk; poke; prod; pummel; rap; shot; slam; slap; slug; slug; smack; sm. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Pummel" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Pummel" is used about 15 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 60% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pummel" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pummel | Last name | 130 | 61,006 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pummel": pummel-vision. | |
| 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 |
pummel | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pummel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrah me grushte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | удрям с юмруци (pommel, thump), бъхтя с юмруци (pommel), бия с юмруци (pommel, thump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | søgerstift (pilot, pilot punch), søgernål (pilot, pilot punch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zoekerpen (pilot, pilot punch), centreerpen (guide pin, pilot, pilot punch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کوبیدن(poundbeat=), له کردن (Mangle, Maul, Quash, Rase, Scotch, Squash, Squeeze, Squelch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hakutappi (pilot, pilot punch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pilote conique (pilot punch), doigt conique de positionnement (pilot punch), bourrer de coups. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Suchstift (pilot, pilot punch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθοδηγητικός πείρος (pilot, pilot punch), γρονθοκοπώ (pommel, punch, slog, strike with the fist), λαβή (clutch, grip, haft, handle, heft, knob, lug, pommel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | öklöz (spar, thump, to buffet, to cuff, to pummel, to spar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | meninju, menghantam (punch, smite), menggebuki (beat up), hantam (pound, scuffle, strike), gocob. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | gleadhair (beat noisily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prendere a pugni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ummelpay agredir a soco (thump). (various references) бить (baste, beat, beaten, belabour, buffet, catch, chastise, chime, club, drub, hit, kicked, kicking, knock, lambaste, larrup, lick, pound, run across, smash, strike, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whop). (various references) premlatiti (do over). (various references) aporrear (bang, bang away, beat, beat up, blackjack, bludgeon, clobber, club, cosh, cudgel, knock about, pommel, pound, pound on, slog, slug, thrash, thump, thwack, whack). (various references) sadelknapp (pommel), puckla på (pommel, punch, slog). (various references) yumruklamak (batter, batter down, biff, buffet, clump, fist, give smb. snuff, hit out, pommel, pound, punch, thump), vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap). (various references) завдавати ударів (plug away at), лупцювати (baste, belabour, fib, flail, hit out, lambaste, lick, pommel, whang). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pummel": pummeled, pummeling, pummelled, pummelling, pummelo, pummelos, pummels. (additional references) | |
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"Pummel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bummel, pamal, pamel, Pamell, pammel, pemel, Pemyll, Pmle, pomelo, pomil, pommelo, pommer, Pommet, pommy, pumal, pumel, pumell, pumila, pumilio, pumilum, pummelo, pummle, pummled, pummy, Pymm, Pymmes, Rummel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pummel" (pronounced pu"mul) |
| 3 | -m u l | abnormal, abysmal, animal, baptismal, camel, caramel, decimal, dermal, dismal, enamel, endodermal, epidermal, formal, geothermal, Hamal, hydrothermal, infinitesimal, informal, isothermal, mammal, maximal, mesodermal, minimal, normal, optimal, paranormal, pommel, primal, proximal, thermal, tramel, trammel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-m-m-p-u" | |
-1 letter: plume. | |
-2 letters: lump, mule, mump, plum, pule. | |
-3 letters: elm, emu, leu, lum, mel, mem, mum, pul, umm, ump. | |
-4 letters: el, em, me, mm, mu, pe, um, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-m-m-p-u" | |
+1 letter: plummet, pummelo, pummels. | |
+2 letters: exemplum, plummets, plummier, pummeled, pummelos. | |
+3 letters: plummeted, plummiest, pummeling, pummelled. | |
+4 letters: lumpectomy, plummeting, polemonium, pummelling. | |
+5 letters: polemoniums. | |
| 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. | |
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