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Spangly

Definition: Spangly

Spangly

Adjective

1. Covered with beads or jewels or sequins.

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

Date "spangly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)


Synonyms: Spangly

Synonyms: beaded (adj), beady (adj), bejeweled (adj), bejewelled (adj), bespangled (adj), gemmed (adj), jeweled (adj), jewelled (adj), sequined (adj), spangled (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Spangly

"Spangly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Spangly" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)66.67%2245,945
Adverb (general)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

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Expression: Spangly

Expression using "spangly": beaded beady bejeweled bejewelled bespangled gemmed jeweled jewelled sequined spangled spangly. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Spangly

Language Translations for "spangly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

украсен с пайети. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γυαλιστερόσ, λάμπων (ablaze, aglow, alight, effulgent, incandescent, lucent, refulgent, shiny, sparkling, splendent). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

flitterrel díszített, csillámló (shimmery). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anglyspay

   

Russian 

  

с блестками, покрытый блестками. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

có trang kim. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Spangly"

Words rhyming with "spangly" (pronounced 'Span"gly'): Giggly, jungly, shingly, singly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Spangly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-l-n-p-s-y"

-1 letter: slangy.

-2 letters: glans, palsy, pangs, pansy, plans, plays, slang, spang, splay, yangs.

-3 letters: agly, alps, gals, gaps, gapy, gasp, gays, gyps, lags, lang, laps, lays, nags, naps, nays, pals, paly, pang, pans, pays, plan, play, pyas, sagy, salp, sang, slag, slap, slay, snag, snap, span, spay, yang, yaps.

-4 letters: alp, als, any, asp, ays.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-l-n-p-s-y"
 

+1 letter: gunplays, palsying, splaying.

 

+2 letters: anaglyphs, raspingly, sparingly.

 

+3 letters: displaying, graspingly, gyroplanes, misplaying, paralysing, pargylines, playthings, pleasingly.

 

+4 letters: angioplasty, misapplying, playactings, playgrounds, playmakings, unsparingly.

 

+5 letters: appraisingly, despairingly, laryngoscope, laryngoscopy, palynologies, palynologist, plasmolyzing, playwritings, pugnaciously, redisplaying, splenomegaly, surpassingly.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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