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Definitions: Scrimmage |
ScrimmageNoun1. Practice play between a football team's squads. 2. A noisy riotous fight. Verb1. Practice play, in sports. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scrimmage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Note: Scrimmage \Scrim"mage\, noun. [A corruption of skirmish. ``Sore scrymmishe.'' --Ld. Berners.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Scrimmage A tussle a slight battle. From the obsolete scrimer, a fencer; French, escrimeur; same root as escarmouch, our skirmish. "Prince Ouffur at this skrymage, for all his pryde, Fled full fast and sought no guide." MS. Lansdowne, 200, f. 10. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: ScrimmageSynonyms: battle royal (n), melee (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contention | Shindy; fracas; (discord); clash of arms; tussle, scuffle, broil, fray; affray, affrayment; velitation; colluctation, luctation; brabble, brigue, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash, bushfighting. |
Discord | Broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation; embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance; (disorder); commotion; (agitation); bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scrimmage |
| English words defined with "scrimmage": back ♦ center ♦ draw, draw play ♦ end ♦ flanker, flankerback ♦ guard ♦ line backer, line of scrimmage, linebacker, lineman, linemen ♦ mousetrap ♦ Off side ♦ running back ♦ scrimmage line, Skrimmage, snapper ♦ tackle, tailback, trap play. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scrimmage": BARGAIN. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Scrimmage" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (scrum, scrummage). |
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Screenplays | We've got a scrimmage against Aurora this Friday. (Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story; writing credit: Frank Moorhouse) | |
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 | First scrimmage in the Yale Bowl.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Grand football march--darktown against Blackville: a scrimmage.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Scrimmage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scrimmage" 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) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scrimmage": line of scrimmage ♦ scrimmage line. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
scrimmage | 14 |
scrimmage vest | 12 |
scrimmage vest soccer | 4 |
scrimmage word | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "scrimmage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përleshje (conflict, dustup, fight, fighting, fray, melee, mix in, mix up, scramble, scrum, scuffle, set to, skirmish, tussle), kacafytje (dustup, fracas, scuffle, wrestle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مناوشة (brush, clash, fight, skirmish, velitation), مشاجرة (fracas, fray, kerfuffle, mayhem, ruction, spat, stink), ناوش (harry, skirmish, torment), تشاجر (brawl, broil, come to blows, fraying, hassle, jangle, quarrel, row, rumble, scrap, scuffle, set to, spat, squabble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сборичкване (hassle, rough up), сборичквам се, спорна топка (scrum, scrummage), правя меле. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rvaèka (affray, dogfight, fight, fracas, melee, scrap, tussle), mlýn (mill, ruck, scrum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | هنگامه (Rumpus, Tumult, Uproar), کشمکش (Bout, Conflict, Scuffle, Skirmish, Struggle, Toil, Tussle, Wrestle), غوغا (Affray, Clamor, Din, Fray, Hubbub, Jangle, Melee, Mob, Pandemonium, Peal, Rave, Riot, Rumpus, Scuffle, Tumult, Turmoil, Uproar), دست وپنجه نرم کردن (Buckle), دادوبیداد (Brawl, Broil, Jangle, Rampage, Riot, Squabble, Uproar, Wrangle), درتکاپوبودن (Lurk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mettre dans une mêlée, mêlée, faire une mêlée, bagarre (scrap, scuffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sich drängen (crowd, mount up, press, throng, to crowd), rangelei, offenes gedränge (scrummage), gedränge (bunching, congestion, crowd, crush, hustle, jam, jostle, jostling, melee, press, rush, scrum, scrummage, squash, squeeze, throng). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνωστίζομαι (be crushed, be jammed, be pressed, crowd, huddle, jam, mob, swarm), συμπλέκομαι (brawl, engage, fight), ταραχή (agitation, apprehension, bustle, coil, commotion, consternation, disturbance, flurry, fluster, flutter, frenzy, fuss, outbreak, perturbation, pother, restlessness, riot, row, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, stir, trepidation, trouble, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter), οχλαγωγία (commotion, hubbub, riot, rout, row, tumult, turmoil, uproar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ת'ר" (affray, conflict, melee, quarrel, strife). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | dulakodás (grapple, scrap, scrum, scuffle), verekedés (brawl, brawling, fight, fray, hassle, melee, mix in, punch-up, rowdiness, run-in, scrap, scuffle, set-to, tussle), kavarodás (hassle, hurly-burly, mix-up, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scrum, stir, tangled skein, turmoil), közelharc (close combat, dog fight, dog-fight, hand-play, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, hand-to-hand fighting, infighting, scrum), edzés (coaching, induration, practice, tempering, training, workout), edzőmérkőzés (practice match). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tafferuglio (brawl, broil, scuffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | スクリーン印刷 (screen printing, screw, screw propeller, screwdriver, script, script girl, scripter, Scripture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | スクリメージ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cleebyrt (scrummage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | immagescray tomar parte numa rixa (scuffle), rixa (affray, brawl, bully, riot, rumpus, scuffle, tussle), lutar (battle, buffet, combat, conflict, contend, contest, fight, grapple, lute, militate, scrap, scuffle, strike, strive, struggle, tug, vie, wrestle), luta confusa (scuffle), escaramuça (bully, skirmish), contenda (Bicker, contention, controversy, dispute, duellist, feudal, quarrel, row, scramble, squabble, strife, struggle, tussle), buscar ativamente (search for), brigar (altercate, Bicker, brawl, fall over, fight, get in a quarrel, quarrel, scrap, scuffle, struggle, wrestle). (various references) învãlmãşealã (bustle, confusion, crowd, hubbub, scuffle, scurry, squash, stampede, stir, struggle, throng, turmoil), încãierare (brush, fray, grapple, melee, rough and tumble, rout, row, scramble, scuffle, set to, skirmish, tussle, wrestle), îmbulzealã (cram, crush, hustle, rush, throng). (various references) потасовка (fracas, hand-play, mix up, mix-in), драка (affray, battle royal, fight, fray, mix in, mix-in, scrum, scuffle, tussle, wigs on the green). (various references) caigeann (a couple, a winding pass through rocks and brushwood). (various references) krkljanac (huddle), gužva za loptu (scrum). (various references) pelear (argue, fight, quarrel, row, skirmish), pelea (battle, broil, bust up, combat, concourse, cut, fight, fighting, hassle, infighting, mix in, mix up, punch-up, quarrel, scene, scrambling, scrap, scuffle, shindig, shindy, skirmish, tiff, tussle). (various references) gruff (row, wrangle). (various references) saldırı (aggression, assault, attack, charge, dash, invasion, offence, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, on-slaught, pounce, raid, scrum, scrummage, thrust), itişip kakışma (hustling, scrum, scrummage), hücum (access, aggression, assault, attack, bully, charge, dash, forage, incursion, offensive, onrush, onset, raid, rush, sortie, storm, thrust), göğüs göğüse kavga (close, hand-to-hand fighting), çatışma (battle, brush, clash, coincidence, collision, conflict, disagreement, rencontre, run in, skirmish), çarpışma (action, bump, clash, collision, combat, conflict, encounter, engagement, foul, impact, rencontre, scrum, scrummage, set to, skirmish, smash, smash up). (various references) сутичка (affair, affront, bump, bustle, clash, collision, conflict, encounter, fight, fighting, fray, impingement, jostle, mix in, rencontre, rencounter, scramble, scrummage, shock, skirmish, tilt), скандалити (brawl, cut up rough, rag, raise cain, row, scrummage). (various references) sự cãi lộn, cuộc ẩu đả (affray, doglight, fray, knock-about, scuffle, tussle, wrangle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tumultuabitur, tumultuabuntur, tumultuati. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scrimmage": scrimmaged, scrimmager, scrimmagers, scrimmages. (additional references) | |
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"Scrimmage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scremage, scrimage, scrimege, skrimage, srimmage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scrimmage" (pronounced skri"mij) |
| 3 | -m i j | afterimage, rummage. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-m-m-r-s" | |
-1 letter: grimaces, racemism. | |
-2 letters: gammers, gammier, gisarme, grammes, grimace, imagers, maimers, megrims, mirages. | |
-3 letters: ageism, aimers, amices, armies, cagers, cagier, camise, caries, cerias, cigars, creams, crimes, ericas, gamers, gamier, gammer, gimmes, graces, gramme, grimes, imager, images, macers, magics, maigre, maimer, mamies, marges, megrim, mimers, mirage, racism, ramies, sagier, scream, simmer, smegma. | |
-4 letters: acmes, acres, aegis, agers, agism, aimer, amice, amies, amirs, areic, arise, cager, cages, cames, cares, carse, ceria, cigar, cires, crags, crams, cream, cries, crime, emirs, erica, escar, gamer, games, gamic, gears, gemma, germs, gimme, grace, grams, grime, image, imams, macer, maces, mages, magic, maims, mairs, mamie, marcs, mares, marge, marse, maser, mesic, miasm, micas, micra, mimer, mimes, mires, miser, races, rages, ragis, raise, ramie, reams, regma, rices, rimes, sager, saice, sarge, scare, scrag, scram, scrim, serac, serai, sigma, simar, smarm, smear. | |
-5 letters: aces, acme, acre, ager, ages, aims, airs, amie, amir, amis, arcs, ares, arms, arse, asci, cage, came, cams, care, cars, case, cigs, cire, crag, cram, cris, ears, egis, emic, emir, eras, ergs, gaes, game, gams, gars, gear, gems, germ, gies, gram, grim, ices, imam, ires, mace, macs, maes, mage, magi, mags, maim, mair, marc, mare, mars, megs, mems, mesa, mica, mice, migs, mime, mire, mirs, mise, race, rage, ragi, rags, rami, rams, rase, ream, recs, regs, reis, rems, rias, rice, rigs, rime, rims, rise, sage, same, sari, scag, scam, scar, seam, sear, semi, sera, sice, sima, sire. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-m-m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: scrimmaged, scrimmager, scrimmages. | |
+2 letters: microimages, scrimmagers. | |
+3 letters: microgametes, micromanages. | |
+4 letters: commiserating, micromanagers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 72 69 6D 6D 61 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. .. -- -- .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110010 01101001 01101101 01101101 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c r i m m a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0072 0069 006D 006D 0061 0067 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536984757979677371 |
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