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Definition: Shenanigan |
ShenaniganNoun1. Reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others. 2. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ShenaniganSynonyms: chicanery (n), devilment (n), devilry (n), deviltry (n), guile (n), mischief (n), mischief-making (n), mischievousness (n), rascality (n), roguery (n), roguishness (n), trickery (n), wile (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Wit | Farce, buffoonery, fooling, tomfoolery; shenanigan, harlequinade; broad farce, broad humor; fun, espieglerie; vis comica. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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 |
shenanigan | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "shenanigan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Farsi | چرند (Baloney, Bilk, Corny, Crap, Hokum, Inane, Jive, Ludicrous, Nonsensical, Rigmarole, Silly, Stuff, Trashy, Unmeaning, Windy), حقه یاحیله برای عطف توجه , شیطنت (Mischief). (various references) | |
Hungarian | suskus (cahoots, horse-trade, skulduggery, twist), trükk (fetch, knack, ploy, ruse, trick, trickery, tweak), gyanús ügy (monkey business, skulduggery), blöff (bluff). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enaniganshay.(various references) | |
Russian | чудачество (comicality, crank, faddiness, monkey business). (various references) | |
Swedish | skoj (caper, chaff, cheating, fraud, frisk, frolic, fun, gag, gyp, high jinks, humbug, humbuggery, imposture, jape, jest, jesting, joke, Josh, jugglery, kidding, lark, leg pull, sham, tomfoolery, trickery), rackartyg (mischief, monkey business, monkey tricks), fiffel (crooked dealings, fiddle, hocus pocus, hustle, jiggery pokery, jiggery-pokery, manipulations, tricks, wangle). (various references) | |
Turkish | saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), uyanıklık (alertness, being awake, guard, monkey tricks, nimbleness, sleeplessness, smartness, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness), kurnazlık (archness, art, artfulness, artifice, arts, astuteness, craftiness, cunning, dodge, finesse, foxiness, guile, shiftiness, slyness, smartness, stratagem, strategy, subtility, subtlety, trick, wheeler-dealing, wheeling and dealing, wiliness, wrinkle), dalaverecilik. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự chơi khăm (disservice, mystification), sự chơi ác, điều vô nghĩa sự đánh lừa. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shenanigan": shenanigans. (additional references) | |
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"Shenanigan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hennigan, hennigian, shenanegan, shenanigen, shenenigan, shennanigan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shenanigan" (pronounced shuna"nigun) |
| 6 | -a" n i g u n | Brannigan. |
| 4 | -i g u n | cardigan, hooligan, Mulligan. |
| 3 | -g u n | Balbriggan, bandwagon, bargain, Bogan, Brogan, collagen, dragon, gorgon, jargon, Lagan, Logan, longan, Morgan, Morgen, organ, pagan, shogun, slogan, snapdragon, Tigon, toboggan, wagon. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-h-i-n-n-n-s" | |
-2 letters: anhingas, hennaing. | |
-3 letters: anginas, anhinga, nannies. | |
-4 letters: aahing, angina, ashing, easing, ensign, geisha, haeing, hennas, hinges, inanes, insane, nannie, neighs, saning, sienna. | |
-5 letters: aegis, again, aghas, angas, anise, annas, ansae, ashen, gains, gnash, hangs, hansa, hanse, henna, hinge, inane, naans, nanas, neigh, nighs, nines, saiga, sanga, sangh, segni, sengi, senna, shine, singe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-h-i-n-n-n-s" | |
+1 letter: shenanigans. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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