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Sharpie

Definitions: Sharpie

Sharpie

Noun

1. An alert and energetic person.

2. A person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.

3. A long narrow shallow-draft boat with a flat bottom and a triangular sail; formerly used along the N Atlantic coast of the US.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Sharpie

Synonyms: busy bee (n), chiseler (n), chiseller (n), eager beaver (n), gouger (n), live wire (n), scammer (n), sharper (n), sharpy (n), swindler (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Sharpie

DomainTitle

Books

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sharpie

Illustrations:
Sharpie

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Usage Frequency: Sharpie

"Sharpie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sharpie" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sharpie

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sharpie

132

island norwalk sharpie

3

sharpie marker

28

munroe sharpie

3

sharpie 500 ticket

21

boat plan sharpie

2

sharpie 500

19

sanford sharpie marker

2

sharpie pen

14

haven new sharpie

2

dog sharpie

13

plan sharpie

2

sanford sharpie

8

sharpie silver

2

boat sail sharpie

6

puppy sharpie

2

owens sharpie terrell

5

boat plan sail sharpie

2

sharpie boat

5

sharpie walgreens.com

2

sharpie permanent marker

5

sharpie sweepstake

2

chinese sharpie

4

bristol sharpie 500 ticket

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sharpie

Language Translations for "sharpie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

dlouhá loï. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arpieshay

   

Russian 

  

шарпи (sharpies). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sharpie

Derivations

Words beginning with "sharpie": sharpies. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sharpie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: harpie, Sarpi, shagpile, shahr-i, Shapria, sharapour, Sharapov, shariah, sharie, Sharief, Sharkie, Sharmpal, Sharniad, sharpay, sharpe, sharpee, Sharpeeeee, sharpei, Shar-pei, Sharpik, Sharpo, Sherpao, shripe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sharpie"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sharpie" (pronounced shÄ"rpē)
5sh Ä" r p ēsharpy.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sharpie

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: harpies.

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-p-r-s"

-1 letter: ashier, aspire, paries, parish, perish, phrase, praise, raphes, raphis, reship, seraph, shaper, sherpa, spirea.

-2 letters: apers, aphis, apish, apres, arise, asper, ephas, hairs, hares, harps, heaps, hears, heirs, hires, pairs, paise, pares, paris, parse, pears, peris, phase, piers, prase, presa, pries, prise, raise, rapes, raphe, reaps, rheas, ripes, sepia, serai, shape, share.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: aphorise, aspheric, earlship, harelips, heparins, parchesi, parishes, pharisee, plashier, raphides, samphire, sapphire, seraphic, seraphim, seraphin, sharpies, triphase.

 

+2 letters: apheresis, aphorised, aphorises, aphorizes, atrophies, camphires, chapiters, earlships, eparchies, epigraphs, euphorias, graphites, misphrase, parchesis, perianths, pharisees, phratries, planisher, reshaping, samphires, sapphires, seraphims, serigraph, shapelier, spearfish, spherical, splashier, therapies, therapist, therapsid.

 

+3 letters: antiherpes, apartheids, aphaeresis, archpriest, aspherical, dealership, diaphorase, dispatcher, epiphragms, euphorbias, euphrasies, graphemics, hairpieces, haruspices, headspring, hesperidia, hyperemias, hyperopias, ideographs, interphase, leadership, mastership, misphrased, misphrases, parritches, pasticheur, perishable, pharmacies, philanders, phyllaries, planishers, preachiest, preshaping, prewashing, printheads, readership, reemphasis, rephrasing, rhapsodies, rhapsodize, sapphirine, serigraphs, serigraphy, sharpening, shipmaster, sphalerite, spheroidal, springhead, therapists, therapsids, wardenship.

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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Alternative Orthography: Sharpie


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 68 61 72 70 69 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ....    .-    .-.    .--.    ..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101000 01100001 01110010 01110000 01101001 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#97 &#114 &#112 &#105 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 0061 0072 0070 0069 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53746784827571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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