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Shrinking Violet

Definition: Shrinking Violet

Shrinking Violet

Noun

1. Someone who shrinks from familiarity with others.

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


Synonym: Shrinking Violet

Synonym: shy person (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Shrinking Violet

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Shrinking Violet

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

shrinking violet

14

doll shrinking violet

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Shrinking Violet

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-i-i-k-l-n-n-o-r-s-t-v"

-3 letters: overthinking.

-4 letters: reignitions, religionist.

-5 letters: holstering, inheriting, interlinks, novelising, ornithines, overlights, overnights, overthinks, reignition, reinviting, reinvoking, rethinking, revisiting, shortening, shriveling, slithering, snorkeling, theorising, triskelion, vitrioling.

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: Shrinking Violet


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

53 68 72 69 6E 6B 69 6E 67      56 69 6F 6C 65 74

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

    

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

01010011 01101000 01110010 01101001 01101110 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01010110 01101001 01101111 01101100 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#86 &#105 &#111 &#108 &#101 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 0072 0069 006E 006B 0069 006E 0067      0056 0069 006F 006C 0065 0074

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

5374847580777580732567581787186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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