Sawed-off

Definitions: Sawed-off

Sawed-off

Adjective

1. Slang; well below average height.

2. Cut short; "a sawed-off broomstick"; "the shortened rope was easier to use".

Modern Usage: Sawed-off

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You sawed-off sadistic bastard! (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Sawed-off

Domain	Title
Books	Sawed-Off Justice (reference) Sawed-Off Sketches (Notable American Authors) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Sawed-off

"Sawed-off" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sawed-off" is used about 2 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)

Modern Translations: Sawed-off

Language		Translations for "sawed-off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		с прерязана цев, дребен (dinky, dwarf, finical, finicking, finicky, insignificant, little, minor, niggling, paltry, peddling, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, puny, pygmy, rabbity, shabby, short, small, small time, small-scale, trifling, trivial, undersized, unimportant, venial). (various references)

Chinese		身材矮小. (various references)

Italian		fucile a canne mozze (sawed-off shotgun, sawn-off shotgun). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		寸詰まり (a little short). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		す�"づまり (a little short). (various references)

Korean		톱질하�" 떨어� �. (various references)

Pig Latin		awed-offsay

Spanish		escopeta con los cañones cortados (sawed-off shotgun, sawn-off). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Sawed-off

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-f-o-s-w"
	-2 letters: waffed.
	-3 letters: daffs, doffs, dowse, fades, fados, feods, offed, sawed, sowed, wades, waffs, woads.
	-4 letters: ados, awed, awes, daff, daws, deaf, dews, does, doff, dose, dows, effs, fade, fado, fads, feds, feod, foes, oafs, odea, odes, offs, owed, owes, owse, sade, safe, soda, sofa, wade, wads, waes, waff, weds, woad, woes.
	-5 letters: ado, ads, aff, awe, daw, dew, doe, dos, dow, eds, eff, efs, fad, fas, fed, few, foe, oaf, ode, ods, oes, off, ose, owe, sad, sae, saw, sea, sew, sod, sow, wad, wae, was, wed, woe, wos.
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