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Definition: Sob Story |
Sob StoryNoun1. A sentimental story or personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Sob StorySynonym: sob stuff (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | His Sob Story (1914) | |
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 |
sob story | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sob story"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | storia lacrimosa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | dobberan (bewail, deplore, lament, lamentation, mourn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obsay orystay слезливая, душещипательная история. (various references) snyfthistoria. (various references) เรื่องเศร้าเคล้าน้ำตา. (various references) truyện thương cảm lý do đưa ra để l m mủi lòng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-o-o-r-s-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: boosts, robots, roosts, stroys, torsos. | |
-3 letters: boors, boost, boots, booty, borts, borty, bossy, boyos, broos, brosy, robot, roost, roots, rooty, rotos, ryots, soots, sooty, sorbs, sorts, stobs, story, stroy, toros, torso, toyos, troys, tyros. | |
-4 letters: boor, boos, boot, bort, boss, bots, boyo, boys, broo, bros, oots, orbs, orby, orts, robs, root, rosy, roto. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-o-o-r-s-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: storybooks. | |
+3 letters: bryologists, storyboards. | |
+4 letters: boisterously, polysorbates, robustiously. | |
+5 letters: embryologists. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 62 53 74 6F 72 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01100010 00100000 01010011 01110100 01101111 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o b   S t o r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0062 0053 0074 006F 0072 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53816825386818491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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