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Definition: Silly Season |
Silly SeasonNoun1. A time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Silly Season (The), for daily newspapers, is when Parliament is not in session, and all sorts of "silly" stuff are vamped-up for padding. Also called the "Big Gooseberry Season," because paragraphs are often inserted on this subject. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| 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 |
the silly season | 29 |
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| Language | Translations for "silly season"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | мъртъв сезон, постен сезон. (various references) | ||||
Dutch | komkommertijd (gooseberry season). (various references) | ||||
French | morte saison. (various references) | ||||
German | Sommerloch, Saure-Gurken-Zeit (gooseberry season). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | uborkaszezon (layoff). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | illysay easonsay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-n-o-s-s-s-y" | |
-2 letters: sessional, sinlessly. | |
-3 letters: ainsells, anisoles, loessial, sensilla, soilless. | |
-4 letters: ainsell, alienly, anisole, assoils, elysian, essoins, illness, insoles, lassies, lassoes, lesions, lessons, linseys, lioness, loessal, lysines, niellos, osseins, salines, sallies, sanseis, sassily, seasons, selsyns, session, silanes, sinless, slyness, sonless, synesis. | |
-5 letters: aisles, aliens, alines, aliyos, alleys, allies, alloys, aloins, anises, anoles, assoil, easily, elains, eloins. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l-n-o-s-s-s-y" | |
+2 letters: obsessionally. | |
+3 letters: successionally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 6C 6C 79 53 65 61 73 6F 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01101100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01010011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i l l y   S e a s o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 006C 006C 0079 0053 0065 0061 0073 006F 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53757878912537167858180 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, bulgare, bolgár |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, néerlandais, holländisch, holland |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | френски език, френски, français, französisch, francia |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, Duitse, allemand, német |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hongaarse, hongrois, Ungar, magyar |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, anglais, englisch, angol |
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