Scuttlebutt

Definition: Scuttlebutt

Scuttlebutt

Noun

1. A report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip".

Synonyms: Scuttlebutt

Synonyms: comment (n), gossip (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	The Howdy Doody Show - Scuttlebutt & Other Episodes (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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"Scuttlebutt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scuttlebutt" 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

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.

Language		Translations for "scuttlebutt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		thashetheme (backbite, badinage, chitchat, gossip, grape vine, gup, hearsay, idle gossip, noise, old wives' tales, report, rumor, rumour, tale, tittle tattle, tootle, whisper), llafe (blah, claptrap, comment, gab, hassle, jaw, taradiddle, tattle, tittle tattle, waffle), fuçi me uji të pijshëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏برميل ماء شرب. (various references)

Bulgarian		слух (audition, breeze, bruit, buzz, hearing, hearsay, noise, report, reportage, rumor, rumour, speech, story, whisper, whispering, wind), каца с вода за пиене, клюка (cambock, cammock, gossip, noise, tale, whiff), мълва (bruit, cry, fame, report, reportage, rumor, rumour, speech, wind). (various references)

Farsi		فواره اب اشامیدنی , بشکه اب عرشه کشتی . (various references)

French		ragots (scandal), baril d'eau douce. (various references)

German		Wasserfaß. (various references)

Greek		σπερμολογίεσ. (various references)

Hungarian		pletyka (clash, gossip, gup, scuttlebut, tittle-tattle, whisper, whispering), mendemonda (chit-chat, gossiping, hearsay, scuttlebut), ivóvíz-tartály (scuttlebut), ellenőrizhetetlen hír (scuttlebut, whisper). (various references)

Pig Latin		uttlebuttscay

Russian		сплетня (gossip, gup, tale, tattle, whispering), бочка для пресной воды. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		glasovi, bure vode. (various references)

Spanish		rumor (report, rumor, rumour, saying, whisper), habladuría (nasty remark), barril de agua fresca. (various references)

Turkish		söylenti (account, fame, grapevine, hearsay, report, rumor, rumour, story, talk, whisper), mancana (breaker), dedikodu (dirt, gossip, grapevine, grapevine telegraph, hearsay, report, rumor, rumour, scandal, tale, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, tittletattle). (various references)

Ukranian		чутка (bruit, hearsay, noise, rumor, rumour, sough, whisper, wind, word), бачок з питною водою. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "scuttlebutt": scuttlebutts. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Scuttlebutt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scuttlebut, skuttlebutt. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "scuttlebutt" (pronounced sku"tulbu't)
3	-b u' t	turbot.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-l-s-t-t-t-t-u-u"
	-4 letters: cutlets, cuttles, scuttle, subcult, tubules.
	-5 letters: bluest, bluets, bustle, butles, buttes, bututs, culets, cultus, cutest, cutlet, cuttle, sublet, subtle, tubule.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-l-s-t-t-t-t-u-u"
	+1 letter: scuttlebutts.
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