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Definition: Shady |
ShadyAdjective1. Of businesses and businessmen; "a fly-by-night operation". 2. Of questionable taste or morality; "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting". 3. (informal) not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior". 4. Filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shady" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Shady \Shad"y\, adjective. [Comparative Shadier; superlative Shadiest.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | General terms referring to variations in the shade of dyed textile materials, excluding ending. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Shady On the shady side of forty - the wrong side, meaning more than forty. As evening approaches the shadows lengthen, and as man advances towards the evening of life he approaches the shady side thereof. As the beauty of the day is gone when the sun declines, the word shady means inferior, bad, etc.; as, a shady character, one that will not bear the light; a shady transaction, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Adjective. Source: Comes from the word shady, meaning hidden from light or the sun, in darkness. Definition: Shady refers to a situation that borders on inappropriate, or has a possibility of making someone uncomfortable. Context: When saying that something is "shady", you are usually in a group of friends who understands what shady means, and will probably agree with your opinion. Social Source: Young Life leaders. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Adjective. Source: Shady as the opposite of sunshine and plesantness? This is my guess. Definition: Describes an unsavvy businessman, one who rips people off and is not to be trusted. Context: This is a term used to describe someone who doesn't practice good karma in their drug deals, someone who would sell you something that you don't want or would sell you less of something than what you paid for. Social Source: Univ. of Oregon Drug Scene. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| Adj. Source: Unknown. Definition: A place or thing that looks bad or could involve trouble. Context: Shady involves going somewhere that is bad. Social Source: Theta Chi Fraternity. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| Noun. Source: Comes from the word shade. Definition: A screen against light. Context: A word used by Berkeley youth to describe a person or object that has done something outside of the norm. Social Source: Kids from Berkeley, California. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| Adjective. Source: Unknown. Definition: Bad. Context: Used to desribe something that is unsatisfactory or not to a person's liking. Social Source: Sigma Kappa Sorority. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ShadySynonyms: fishy (adj), fly-by-night (adj), funny (adj), louche (adj), queer (adj), shadowed (adj), shadowy (adj), suspect (adj), suspicious (adj), umbrageous (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Shady |
| English words defined with "shady": Agrostis alba, arbor, arboraceous, arboreous, arbour ♦ bargain, bower, bowery ♦ deal ♦ fishy, Frescade, funny ♦ indirect ♦ meadow rue ♦ On the shady side of, Orchard grass ♦ pergola, Poa nemoralis ♦ queer ♦ Shadeful, Shadily, shadowed, shadowy, silvan, suspect, suspicious, sylvan ♦ umbrageous, Umbrose ♦ wood meadowgrass, woodsy, woody. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shady": BOWER, BOWERY ♦ Zalmonah. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "shady": umbrageous. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm Slim Shady. Yes, I'm the real Slim Shady (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) Shady got his last night (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) That Tomas is shady. But have you noticed, he never says what country he's from (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) Then you sit under a nice shady tree and relax (White Heat; writing credit: Virginia Kellogg; Ivan Goff) | |
Lyrics | Slim shady hotter then a set of twin babies (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre) Industry shady it need to be taken over (Izzo (H.O.V.A.); performing artist: Jay-Z) Behind a shady tree ("Jack and Diane"; performing artist: John Cougar Mellencamp) Don't be so shady (Sweet Thing; performing artist: Mary J. Blige) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Shady Shadow (1967) Shady Lady (1945) The Shady Lady (1928) Shady Rest (1926) The Shady Hill Kidnapping (1982) | |
Song Titles | Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane, The (performing artist: The Ames Brothers) | |
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Wake-Robin Trillium (Trillium albidum) in Shady Cove. Credit: Terry Tuttle. | Miner's Lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) at Shady Cove, near the Rogue River. Credit: Terry Tuttle. | ||
The Common Chickweed (Stellaria media) found in Shady Cove. Credit: Terry Tuttle. | Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) at Aunt Caroline's Park in Shady Cove. Credit: Terry Tuttle. | ||
Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa) found near the Rogue River at Shady Cove. Credit: Terry Tuttle. | Tomcat Clover (Trifolium willdenovii) at Shady Cove. Credit: Terry Tuttle. | ||
Catchfly (Silene campanulata) at Shady Cove near the Rogue River. Credit: Terry Tuttle. | Wild Cucumber, also called the Coast Manroot, (Marah oreganus) found at Shady Cove near the Rogue River. Credit: Terry Tuttle. | ||
Tall Oregon Grape (Berbis aquifolium) at Shady Cove near the Rogue River. Credit: Terry Tuttle. | Scotch (Scot's) Broom, a noxious weed, (Cytisus scoparius) along the Rogue River Drive at Shady Cove. Credit: Terry Tuttle. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "A cup of tea in the shady summ" by Karin Jonsson Commentary: "Sit down for a cup of tea in the summer." | "Shady Bench" by Eoghan Mcnally Commentary: "Takin a break from the festival, in the shade outside the bull ring,Pamplona." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Deer ticks are most often found in wooded areas and nearby shady grasslands, and are especially common where the two areas merge. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Shady" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "Shady" is used about 276 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.28% | 274 | 17,727 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.72% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 276 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "shady" 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 |
| Shady | Last name | 170 | 49,446 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Shady, NY |
Expressions using "shady": a shady nook ♦ be on the shady side of fifty ♦ on the shady side of ♦ on the shady side of fourty ♦ shady business ♦ Shady Cove ♦ shady customer ♦ Shady Dale ♦ shady dealings ♦ shady deals ♦ Shady Grove ♦ Shady Hills ♦ shady looking customer ♦ Shady Point ♦ shady public house ♦ shady question ♦ Shady Shores ♦ Shady Side ♦ shady spot ♦ Shady Spring ♦ shady transaction ♦ shady transactions ♦ Shady Valley ♦ shady walk ♦ To keep shady. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "shady": semi-shady. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
slim shady | 1,046 | shady cove oregon | 51 |
record shady | 697 | shady grove adventist hospital | 51 |
real slim shady | 370 | gear shady | 46 |
aftermath shady | 202 | shady.com slim | 42 |
limited shady | 181 | clothing line shady | 40 |
shady | 172 | shady lady | 40 |
clothing shady | 130 | eminem slim shady | 39 |
aftermath record shady | 115 | shady side md | 36 |
the slim shady lp | 94 | the slim shady show | 34 |
shady wear | 92 | please real shady shut slim up will | 34 |
ltd shady | 84 | picture of slim shady | 34 |
grove hospital shady | 81 | eminem the real slim shady | 32 |
shady maple | 81 | shady oak | 32 |
shady grove | 68 | mixtape record shady | 31 |
shady brady | 68 | slim shady ep | 31 |
records.com shady | 66 | aftermath.com shady | 28 |
slim shady lyrics | 65 | eminem the real slim shady lyrics | 26 |
lyrics real slim shady | 62 | slim shady world | 26 |
clothing limited shady | 57 | clothes shady | 24 |
shady brady hat | 55 | maple restaurant shady | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "shady"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me hije (cloudy), i keq (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blinking, bodeful, cancerous, catty, cheesy, crook, dark, defective, dubious, evil, heavy, ill, ill disposed, ill natured, ill-conditioned, lousy, low-grade, malign, malignant, nasty, naughty, perverse, poor, punk, shoddy, sinister, ugly, vicious, vile, wicked), i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, arcane, black, blind, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, delphian, delphic, dim, dingy, dusky, foggy, fuscous, gloomy, indeterminate, inky, low-browed, mirk, misted, muddy, murk, murky, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, secret, somber, sombre, tenebrous), dyshues (distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, incredulous, leery, mistrustful, queer, suspicious, wary). (various references) | |
Arabic | غامض (abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, deep, dim, double faced, dreamy, enigmatic, evasive, fuzzy, grave, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable, intangible, lax, magic, magical, misty, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, occult, opaque, puzzling, recondite, secret, sketchy, slippery, sloppy, uncertain, unintelligible, vague, woolly), ظليل (covert, shadowy, umbrageous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съмнителен (alleged, ambiguous, amphibious, dingy, disputable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, fly-by-night, hedge, hole-and-corner, indeterminate, moot, off beat, phoney, precarious, problematic, queer, questionable, screwy, seedy, shaky, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unsure, vague), сенчест (shadowy, tenebrous, umbrageous), тъмен (black, blackish, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dense, dusk, dusky, esoteric, fuscous, inky, low-browed, murky, neutral, obscure, opaque, overcast, sad, somber, sombre, sooty, unlit), непочтен (discreditable, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, fishy, foul, oblique, sharp, twisty, underhand), засенчест (shadowy), долнопробен (cheap, hedge, seedy, trashy), долен (abject, base, bottom, contemptible, currish, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inferior, iniquitous, low, lower, low-grade, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, rascal, ratty, reptile, rotten, scaly, scurvy, under, unworthy, vile, villainous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 陰涼 , 陰 (cloudy, feminine, moon, negative, overcast, Yin), 背陰 (in the shade), 靉 (cloudy), 遮荫, 曖昧 (ambiguous, illicit), 不三不四 (dubious, neither fish nor fowl, neither one thing nor the other, nondescript). (various references) | |
Czech | stinný (shadowy, umbrageous), temný (dark, gloomy, hollow, murky, obscure, sad, somber, sombre), podezřelý (fishy, phoney, phony, queer, suspect, suspicious), pochybný (devious, disreputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, murky, problematical, questionable, seamy, seedy, specious, suspect, unsavory). (various references) | |
Danish | nuancering (matching, shade, shaded, shading, topping). (various references) | |
Dutch | kleurverloop (shaded, shading). (various references) | |
Farsi | مرموز (Cryptic, Exotic, Inscrutable, Mysterious, Recondite, Unaccountable, Unco, Weird), مشکوک (Doubtful, Dubious, Esoteric, Precarious, Questionable, Skeptic, Suspicious, Uncertain), سایه افکن (Shadowy), سایه دار (Shadowy, Umbrageous). (various references) | |
Finnish | sävyn vaihtelu (shaded, shading), sävyn muutos (shaded, shading), varjoinenvarjoisa (affording shade), hämäräperäinen (obscure). (various references) | |
French | vague (shadowy), véreux, ombragé (shadowy), nuancé (shaded, shading), louche (shifty), dégradé (shaded, shading). (various references) | |
German | schattig (shadily, shadowy, umbrageous). (various references) | |
Greek | ύποπτος (suspicious), ύπουλοσ (catty, hangdog, insidious, insinuate, perfidious, sneak, sneaker, sneaky, underhand, underhanded), σκιώδησ (shadowy), σκιές απόχρωσης (shaded, shading), σκιερόσ (bowery, shadowy, umbrageous), σκιερός, σκοτεινόσ (black, dark, dim, dingy, dusk, murky, obscure, opaque, recondite, somber, sombre). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוצל (shadowy), מצל, נותן צל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | árnyas (adumbral, bosky, bowery, umbrageous), árnyékos (adumbral, shaded, shadowy), kétes (dicey, dingy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, louche, obscure, precarious, queer, questionable, unassured), gyanús (bung, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, liable to suspicion, queer, suspect, suspicion, suspicious, to give rise to suspicion). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bumbun (heap, pile, shelter for hunters), adem (cold, cool, flat, tasteless). (various references) | |
Italian | sfumatura (nuance, shade, shading, tapering, tinge, tint, touch), ombroso (nervous, shaded, shadowy, skittish, touchy), losco (sinister, sly, suspicious, unsavory, unsavoury), fresco (blooming, breezy, chilly, cool, coolness, crisp, fresh, green, new, recent, virgin, wet), equivoco (ambiguity, ambiguous, dubious, equivocal, equivocalness, equivocation, fishy, misapprehension, misunderstanding, shifty, underhand). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 胡散臭い (suspicious looking), 闇 (black-marketeering, dark, darkness, illegal, the dark), 後ろ暗い (back or underhanded), 小暗い (dim, dusky). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おぐらい (dim, dusky), うしろぐらい (back or underhanded), うさんくさい (suspicious looking), こぐらい (dim, dusky), やみ (black-marketeering, dark, darkness, illegal, the dark). (various references) | |
Korean | 그늘지는 (Shadier, Shadiest). (various references) | |
Manx | scaagh (bashful, shadowy, timid), scaadooagh (shadowing, shadowy), ouryssagh (agnostic, disputable, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, mistrusting, moot, questionable, sceptic, sceptical, suspecting, suspicious). (various references) | |
Mohawk | yorahkwawerhon (it is shady). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adyshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | suspeito (doubtful, equivocal, fishy, queer, questionable, spotted, suspect, suspicious), variação da tonalidade (shaded, shading), que protege do sol, que dá sombra, escuso, desonesto (cambered, crooked, devious, dishonest, drossy, false, immodest, impure, knavish, light-fingered, low-down, nasty, sharp, shifty, thievish, tortuous, unchaste, unfair, unfaithful, untrustworthy), de honestidade duvidosa, com sombra (umbrageous). (various references) | |
Romanian | suspect (doubtful, doubtful person, dubious, equivocal, fishy, queer, questionable, suspect, suspicious, suspiciously), umbros (adumbral, darksome, thick, umbrageous), umbrit (overlaid with clouds, shadowy), umbratic, necurat (accursed, cursed, dark, devilish, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, dubious, funny, suspicious, unclean), interlop, echivoc (ambiguity, ambiguous, doubt, equivocal, equivocation, equivoque, multivocal, quibble, suspicious), dubios (doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, questionable, suspicious, uncertain), ambiguu (ambiguous, ambiguously, double, doubtful, equivocal, multivocal). (various references) | |
Romany | senya. (various references) | |
Russian | темный (black, blackish, blind, cimmerian, dark, darksome, dun, gloomy, ignorant, lowering, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, sable, shadowy, somber, sombre, sunless, tenebrous, unlit). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sumnjiv (doubtful, fishy, questionable, suspect, suspicious), senovit (bowery, shadowy, umbrageous), hladovit (shadowy). (various references) | |
Spanish | sospechoso (dubious, fishy, leery, shifty, suspect, suspicious, under a cloud), sombreado (shading, shadow, shadowy, umbrageous), umbrío, turbio (cloudy, dim, dimly, mirk, muddy, murk, murky, roily, thick, troubled, underhand), que da sombra, matizado (hill shading, matching, shaded, shading, tinting). (various references) | |
Swedish | skuggig (bowery, shaded, shadowy). (various references) | |
Thai | เต็มไปด้วยร่มเงา, น่าสงสัย (doubting, fishy, queer, ropey, sceptical, suspect, suspicious). (various references) | |
Turkish | namussuz (dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, faithless, rascal, rascally, tortuous, unchaste, uncleanly), loş (dusk, dusky, gloomy, obscure, shadowy, somber, sombre), karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), gölgeli (clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, shadowy), gölge gibi (shadowy), şüpheli (chancy, contestable, creaky, debatable, discredited, disputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, equivocal, fishy, funny, funny peculiar, hazardous, indecisive, indefinable, murky, nebulous, precarious, problematic, problematical, sceptical, screwy, shadowy, shaky, skeptical, speculative, suspect, suspenseful, suspicious, umbrageous, uncertain, unconvincing). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kцlegli. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сумнівний (apocryphal, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, indeterminate, naughty, off color, off colour, precarious, problematic, problematical, queer, risky, uncertain), тінистий (bowery, shaded, shadeful, shadowy), поганий (bad, bum, cheesy, deplorable, doggerel, ill, inferior, nasty, naught, naughty, objectionable, one horse, punk, rubbishy, sour, third rate, unlovely, weak). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mờ ám, khả nhi hơn bốn mươi tuổi, có bóng râm, có bóng mát; trong bóng mát; bị che ám muội. (various references) | |
Welsh | cysgodol (sheltered). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nemorosa, opacus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Ezekiel Chapter 31, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Idou assour kuparissoV en tw libanw kai kaloV taiV parafuasin kai uyhloV tw megeqei eiV meson nefelwn egeneto h arch autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ecce Assur quasi cedrus in Libano pulcher ramis et frondibus nemorosus excelsusque altitudine et inter condensas frondes elevatum est cacumen eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Loo! Assur as a cedre in Liban, fayr in braunches, and bouwis ful of wode, and heiy in heiythe; and the top therof is reisid vp amonge thicke bouwis. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shady cover, and of a high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds. |
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| Language | Ezekiel Chapter 31, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | Ania karon, ang Asiriahanon maoy usa ka kahoy nga cedro sa Libano uban ang matahum nga mga sanga, ug uban ang landong nga sama sa lasang, ug tindog nga hataas; ug ang tumoy niini anaa sa madasok nga mga sanga. |
| Croatian | Usporedit æu te, evo, s cedrom libanonskim, lijepih grana, gusta lišæa i debla visoka: vrh mu do oblaka seže. |
| Danish | Se, du er en Libanonceder med smukke Grene og skyggefuld Krone, høj af Vækst, hvis Top rager op i Skyerne; |
| Dutch | Zie, Assur was een ceder op den Libanon, schoon van takken, schaduwachtig van loof, en hoog van stam, en zijn top was tussen dichte takken. |
| Finnish | Katso, Assur oli setri Libanonilla, kaunislehväinen, taajavarjoinen, korkeakasvuinen, ja sen latva oli tiheän lehvistön keskellä. |
| French | Voici, l`Assyrie était un cèdre du Liban; Ses branches étaient belles, Son feuillage était touffu, sa tige élevée, Et sa cime s`élançait au milieu d`épais rameaux. |
| German | Siehe, Assur war wie ein Zedernbaum auf dem Libanon, von schönen Ästen und dick von Laub und sehr hoch, daß sein Wipfel hoch stand unter großen, dichten Zweigen. |
| Haitian Creole | Bon. Ou tankou yon pye sèd nan peyi Liban avèk gwo bèl branch li yo plen fèy ki bay gwo lonbraj, yon pyebwa byen wo ak tèt li pèdi nan nwaj yo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Engkau seperti cemara Libanon yang gagah penuh cabang yang rimbun dan indah. Batangnya lurus dan lempang puncaknya mencapai awan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa sesungguhnya Asyur dahulu seperti pohon araz di atas Libanon, elok cabang-cabangnya dan banyak naung daun-daunnya dan tinggi batangnya, sehingga mercunya sampai di awan-awan. |
| Italian | Ecco, l'Assiria era un cedro del Libano, bello di rami e folto di fronde, alto di tronco; fra le nubi era la sua cima. |
| Maori | Nana, he hita i Repanona te Ahiriana, he pai nga manga, pururu tonu, marumaru tonu, he roa rawa, purero rawa; i roto ano tona kouru i nga manga pururu. |
| Norwegian | Se, Assur var en seder på Libanon med fagre grener, en skyggende skog og høi av vekst, og hans krone nådde op mellem skyene. |
| Portuguese | Eis que o assírio era como um cedro do Líbano, de ramos formosos, de sombrosa ramagem e de alta estatura; e a sua copa estava entre os ramos espessos. |
| Rumanian | Iatq cq Asirianul era un cedru falnic kn Liban; ramurile lui erau stufoase, frunziwul umbros, tulpina knaltq, iar vkrful ki ajungea pknq la nori. |
| Russian | чПФ, бУУХТ ВЩМ ЛЕДТ ОБ мЙЧБОЕ, У ЛТБУЙЧЩНЙ ЧЕФЧСНЙ Й ФЕОЙУФПА МЙУФЧПА, Й ЧЩУПЛЙК ТПУФПН; ЧЕТЫЙОБ ЕЗП ОБИПДЙМБУШ УТЕДЙ ФПМУФЩИ УХЮШЕЧ. |
| Spanish | He aquí que consideraré al cedro del Líbano, de ramas hermosas, que ensombrecía al bosque. Era de gran altura, y su copa estaba entre las nubes. |
| Swedish | Se, du är ett ädelt träd, en ceder på Libanon, med sköna grenar och skuggrik krona och hög stam, en som med sin topp räcker upp bland molnen. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Shady" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chady, Chadyr, Haddy, hady, saday, sady, sadye, Schudi, Shaadi, shaby, Shadey, Shadi, shadir, shado, shadoy, shafy, shagy, shamy, shardly, shary, Shayi, sheady, shindy, shody, Shudy, szady, Tshudi, zady. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shady" (pronounced shā"dē) |
| 3 | -ā" d ē | lady. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dashy. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-h-s-y" | |
-1 letter: ashy, dahs, dash, days, hays, shad, shay. | |
-2 letters: ads, ash, ays, dah, day, had, has, hay, sad, say, sha, shy, yah. | |
-3 letters: ad, ah, as, ay, ha, sh, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-h-s-y" | |
+1 letter: hydras, shandy. | |
+2 letters: hayseed, heydays, hydrase, ladyish, shadfly, shadily, shadowy, washday, whydahs. | |
+3 letters: athodyds, dandyish, dayshift, eyeshade, halyards, hayrides, hayseeds, haywards, headstay, headways, holidays, holydays, hyaloids, hydatids, hydrants, hydrases, hydrates, jadishly, ladyfish, ladyship, rhapsody, sashayed, shamoyed, shipyard, toadyish, washdays. | |
+4 letters: aldehydes, anhydrous, ashamedly, babyhoods, birthdays, caddishly, chlamydes, chrysalid, dahabiyas, dashingly, daylights, dayshifts, diaphyses, diaphysis, dyarchies, dysphagia, dysphasia, dysphasic, dysphonia, dysphoria, eyeshades, haulyards, hayfields, headstays, hendiadys, hideaways, husbandly, husbandry, hydracids, hydragogs, hydranths, hydrators, hydrolase, hyracoids, ladyhoods, ladyships, shadberry, shadowily, shipyards. | |
| 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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