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Definition: Sponge Up |
Sponge UpVerb1. Absorb as if with a sponge, of liquids. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
i like philly soaked sponge up | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sponge up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | попивам с гъба. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | abwischen (brush away, clean, dry, dust off, erase, mop, mop down, sponge, sponge down, sponge off, to wipe, wipe, wipe away, wipe off). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | szivaccsal felitat (to sponge, to sponge up), felitat (mop up, to blot, to impregnate, to mop up, to soak up, to sponge up). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ongespay upay süngerle suyunu almak, süngerle kurulamak, kurnazlıkla elde etmek, beleşe konmak (mooch). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-n-o-p-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: oppugns, popguns. | |
-2 letters: oppugn, pengos, popgun, sponge, unpegs. | |
-3 letters: genus, negus, opens, pengo, peons, pepos, pones, pongs, popes, pungs, segno, unpeg. | |
-4 letters: egos, engs, eons, epos, gens, genu, gnus, goes, gone, guns, noes, nogs, nope, nose, nous, ones, onus, open, opes, opus, pegs, pens, peon, pepo, peps, peso, pone, pong, pons, pope, pops, pose. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-n-o-p-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: oppugners. | |
+3 letters: oversupping, scuppernong, superposing. | |
+4 letters: pneumographs, presupposing, scuppernongs, unstoppering. | |
+5 letters: mousetrapping, oversupplying, superimposing. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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