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Splodge

Definition: Splodge

Splodge

Noun

1. An irregularly shaped spot.

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


Synonyms: Splodge

Synonyms: blotch (n), splotch (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Splodge

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Lieutenant Lilly and the Splodge of Opium (1913)

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

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Usage Frequency: Splodge

"Splodge" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Splodge" is used about 14 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
Noun (singular)100%1493,893

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Splodge

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

splodge

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Splodge

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

Albanian

  

njollë (blemish, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, discoloration, imputation, Mark, mote, nebula, patch, plash, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

голямо неправилно петно (splotch), изцапано място (splotch). (various references)

   

Czech

  

skvrnka (mottle, splotch), flek (splotch, stain). (various references)

   

German

  

fleck (bit, blaze, blemish, blob, blot, blotch, blur, fleck, location, lump, Mark, patch, piece, place, smudge, speck, splash, splotch, spot, stain, star). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πασάλειμμα (smattering). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

paca (blob, blot, smudge, splotch, spot), maszat (black, mess-up, smear, smut, splosh, splotch). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

odgesplay

   

Portuguese

  

nódoa (blur, fleck, smear, smirch, soil, splotch, spot, stain, taint, tarnish), mancha (blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brindle, cloud, dapple, defilement, flaw, fleck, guide-mark, marking, reproach, scar, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splotch, spot, stain, taint, tarnish), borrão (blob, blot, blur, smear, smudge, splotch, spot). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

большое неровное пятно. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

brljotina. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mancha (black spot, blemish, blob, blot, blotch, blur, daub, fleck, macula, Mark, patch, slick, smear, smudge, speckle, splash, splotch, spot, stain, taint), borrón (blob, blot, blur, blurring, slur, splotch, stain). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fläck (blemish, blot, blotch, blur, discoloration, fleck, flick, Mark, mottle, patch, slur, smear, smirch, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, stain, taint). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

lekelemek (asperse, attaint, bastardize, bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brand, breathe upon, cloud, defile, dirty, discolor, discolour, dishonor, fleck, flecker, maculate, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, speckle, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish), leke (attaint, blemish, blob, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, discoloration, discolouration, fleck, Mackle, macula, maculation, mottle, shame, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish), bulaştırmak (bedabble, bedaub, besmear, blur, communicate, contaminate, corrupt, daub, dirty, drag, embroil, entangle, imbrue, implicate, infect, involve, inweave, propagate, slush, smear, smudge, splotch, spread, taint, transmit, twine), benek (Dot, fleck, freckle, macula, mottle, speck, speckle, splash, splotch, spot). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

велика брудна пляма. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Splodge

Derivations

Words beginning with "splodge": splodged, splodges. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Splodge

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-l-o-p-s"

-1 letter: gospel, lodges, sloped.

-2 letters: doges, doles, dopes, gelds, gleds, glops, golds, lodes, lodge, loges, loped, lopes, ogled, ogles, plods, poled, poles, posed, slope, soled, spode.

-3 letters: dels, does, doge, dogs, dole, dols, dope, dose, egos, elds, epos, geds, geld, gels, gled, glop, gods, goes, gold, legs, lode, loge, logs, lope, lops, lose, odes.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-l-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: pledgors, splodged, splodges.

 

+2 letters: anglepods, galopades, pledgeors.

 

+3 letters: apologised, despoiling, gallopades, pedologies, pedologist, ridgepoles.

 

+4 letters: depolishing, dispeopling, pedologists, spotlighted.

 

+5 letters: epiglottides, proglottides.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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