Soubrette

Definition: Soubrette

Soubrette

Noun

1. A pert or flirtatious young girl.

2. A minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy.

Date "soubrette" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Etymology: Soubrette \Sou`brette"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Soubrette

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Servant	Maid, maidservant; handmaid; confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette; amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah; nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid; femme de chambre, femme fille; camarista; chef de cuisine,cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella; potwalloper; maid of all work, servant of all work; laundress, bedmaker; journeyman, charwoman; (worker); bearer, chokra, gyp, hamal, scout.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Soubrette

Specialty definitions using "soubrette": Dariolet, Dariolette. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Soubrette" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (soubrette).

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Modern Usage: Soubrette

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

The Soubrette (1917)

It's Dangerous to Tickle a Soubrette (1899)

A Mean Trick on a Sleepy Soubrette (1899)

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

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Commercial Usage: Soubrette

Domain	Title
Books	Singers' Edition Operatic Arias: Soubrette (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Soubrette

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Studies in expression. The author and the soubrette. Credit: Library of Congress.		The soubrette. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Soubrette

"Soubrette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soubrette" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Soubrette

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
soubrette	36
male soubrette	3
en soubrette	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Soubrette

Language		Translations for "soubrette"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		субретка, дяволита прислужница. (various references)

German		Soubrette. (various references)

Greek		σουμπρέττα. (various references)

Pig Latin		oubrettesay

Romanian		subretã (Abigail). (various references)

Russian		субретка. (various references)

Swedish		subrett. (various references)

Thai		คนใช้ในละคร. (various references)

Turkish		hizmetçi kız karakteri, şımarık hizmetçi kız. (various references)

Vietnamese		cô nh� i. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Soubrette

Derivations
	Words beginning with "soubrette": soubrettes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Soubrette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scubette, soubrettte, Suvretta. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Soubrette

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-o-r-s-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: burettes, outsteer, tuberose.
	-2 letters: betters, bettors, burette, butters, obtuser, outsert, rosette, stouter, touters, trustee, turbots.
	-3 letters: berets, better, bettor, bourse, brutes, burets, buster, buteos, butter, buttes, obtest, obtuse, otters, ouster, outers, outsee, outset, rebuts, retest, retuse, robust, rottes, routes, setout, setter, sorbet, souter, stereo, stoure, street, strobe, suttee, tester, tortes, toters, touter, trouts.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-o-r-s-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: soubrettes.
	+2 letters: thereabouts.
	+3 letters: tuberosities.
	+4 letters: bottlebrushes.
	+5 letters: butterscotches, troubleshooter.
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