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Sharpy

Definitions: Sharpy

Sharpy

Noun

1. An alert and energetic person.

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

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


Synonyms: Sharpy

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sharpy

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

object sex sharpy

4

sharpy

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sharpy

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

Bulgarian 

  

умен човек, конте (adonis, beau, chappy, corinthian, dude, exquisite, fop, gallant, jack-a-dandy, nut, popinjay, swell, toff), вид дълга лодка, измамник (ambidextrous, bilk, bilker, cheat, counterfeit, deceiver, double-dealer, fake, fiddler, fraud, gyp, impostor, intake, juggler, ringer, rook, sharp, slicker, swindler). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arpyshay

   

Russian 

  

шулер (blackleg, bunco-steerer, cardshark, cardsharp, cardsharper, rook, sharper). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Sharpy"

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

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

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Anagrams: Sharpy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-p-r-s-y"

-1 letter: harps, harpy, prays, raspy, sharp, spray.

-2 letters: ashy, haps, harp, hasp, hays, hyps, pars, pash, pays, pray, pyas, raps, rash, rasp, rays, ryas, shay, spar, spay, spry, syph, yaps.

-3 letters: ars, ash, asp, ays, hap, has, hay, hyp, pah, par, pas, pay, pry, pya, rah, rap, ras, ray, rya, sap, say, sha, shy.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-p-r-s-y"
 

+1 letter: sharply.

 

+2 letters: charpoys, euphrasy, rhapsody, shipyard, syrphian, whiprays.

 

+3 letters: dysphoria, horseplay, myographs, pharynges, pharynxes, phrasally, pyorrheas, shipyards, syrphians.

 

+4 letters: archetypes, coryphaeus, dysphorias, horseplays, hydrospace, hyperbolas, hyperemias, hyperopias, hyperpneas, hyperspace, kymographs, pachyderms, paranymphs, paraphyses, paraphysis, phyllaries, polygraphs, porphyrias, prankishly, psychiatry, saprophyte, serigraphy, sonography, strathspey, superheavy, typographs, xylographs.

 

+5 letters: amorphously, arthroscopy, bathysphere, chrysoprase, cosmography, discography, granophyres, handyperson, horseplayer, hydrophanes, hydroplanes, hydrospaces, hygrographs, hypergamies, hypermanias, hypermedias, hypermnesia, hyperplanes, hyperplasia, hypersaline, hypersexual, hyperspaces, hyperstatic, hypertonias, hypogastric, karyolymphs, lymphograms, macrophytes, misanthropy, nasopharynx, pachysandra, parenchymas, phalanstery, pharyngitis, phraseology, phylloxeras, physiatrist, playwrights, prophylaxes, prophylaxis, psychiatric, psychodrama, psychograph, pyracanthas, rhinoplasty, saprophytes, saprophytic, scenography, spherically, stenography, strathspeys, stylography, sympathizer, symposiarch, tryptophans.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sharpy


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

53 68 61 72 70 79

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 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#97 &#114 &#112 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 0061 0072 0070 0079

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

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

537467848291

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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