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Definition: Stooge |
StoogeNoun1. A person of unquestioning obedience. 2. A victim of ridicule or pranks. Verb1. Cruise in slow or routine flights. 2. Act as the stooge: "His role was to stooge for the popular comedian". 3. Act as a stooge, in a compliant or subordinate manner; "He stooged for the flamboyant Senator". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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The Three Stooges were an American comedy act in the 20th century. Commonly known by their first names, Larry, Moe, and Curly (sometimes spelled "Curley") became famous for their work in film. They starred in many short features that consisted of creative ways of showcasing their extremely physical brand of slapstick comedy.The Stooges got their name and their start in a vaudeville act called Ted Healy and his Stooges. Brothers Moses (Moe) and Shmuel Howard (Shemp) (original last name Horowitz) were later joined by Larry Fine (real name Feinberg). Shemp left for a career in film (notably as trainer Knobby Walsh in the 'Joe Palooka' films), and brother Curly Howard (real name Jerome, called "Babe" by family members) took his place. Moe was throughout their career the heart and soul of the troupe, acting as both their main creative force and business manager. His daughter Joan (nee' Maurer) is today the owner of the Three Stooges.
The original Three Stooges split from Healy and went on to star in nearly two hundred theatrical short films in the 30s, 40s and 50s, the longest such series in film history. Curly suffered a stroke in 1946 and Shemp returned to the trio. Shemp died of a heart attack in 1956 and Joe Besser was the third Stooge 1956-1958. Besser did not want to travel & had a clause in his contract specifically prohibiting him from being hit, and so was not a good third member, and Columbia Pictures finally pulled the plug on the series of shorts, which had become unprofitable. At this point it seemed that the career of the Three Stooges was over. Columbia released the entire series to television syndication and suddenly a whole new generation of fans rediscovered them. Moe took advantage of their new-again popularity by signing up Curly Joe DeRita as the third member. They went on to make a number of successful full-length feature films over the next decade before age finally caught up with them. Their last project, "Kook's Tour"(1970), was a sort of travelogue made for TV, but was never released though available today on video. Moe also had a minor career as a non-Stooge, appearing in a few movies during the 1960s. Larry died in early 1975, followed by Moe a few months later.
Del Lord directed more than 37 of the "Three Stooges" films. Jules White directed many others.
External Link
- Official Three Stooges Website
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Three Stooges."
Synonyms: StoogeSynonyms: butt (n), dweeb (n), flunkey (n), flunky (n), goat (n), laughingstock (n), yes-man (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Auxiliary | Tool, dupe, stooge, ame damnee; satellite, adherent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stooge |
| English words defined with "stooge": straight man. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Stooge (1953) Stooge for a Mouse (1950) They Stooge to Conga (1943) All the World's a Stooge (1941) The Misses Stooge (1935) | |
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| "Stooge" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Stooge" is used about 20 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) | 90% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stooge": stooge about ♦ stooge around. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "stooge": stooge-like. | |
| 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 |
stooge | 21 |
three stooge | 6 |
3 stooge | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stooge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lolo, lake (henchman, lackey, lacquey), bufon (buffoon, droll, jester, merry andrew, zany). (various references) | |
Arabic | مستضعف, مساعد الممثل الفكاهي, قام بدور الأضحوكة, جاسوس عامل لمصلحة آخر, أضحوكة (joke), شخص ذليل (hireling), شخص ثانوي (cog). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лице станало за посмешище, подставено лице (dummy, plant), играя второстепенна роля, играя по гайдата, изкупителна жертва (fall guy, peace offering, propitiation, scapegoat, sin offering, vicarious sacrifice, whipping boy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 傀儡 (figurehead). (various references) | |
Czech | poskok (caper, dogsbody, hop, skip, underling, understrapper), přisluhovaè (hanger-on, henchman), panák (dram, dummy, puppy, quickie, short, snorter, tot), herec podřadných rolí. (various references) | |
Farsi | الت دست شدن , الت دست (Tool), دلقک (Buffoon, Fool, Jester, Pantaloon), دست نشانده (Puppet). (various references) | |
Finnish | käskyläinen (underling). (various references) | |
French | larbin, laquais, faire-valoir, comparse. (various references) | |
German | Strohmann (dummy, front, front man, scarecrow, stalking horse). (various references) | |
Greek | κορόιδο (dupe, fool, gull, mug, rook, simp, simpleton, sucker), περίγελος (laughing stock, ludicrous, ridiculous), ηθοποιόσ υποδυόμενοσ τον βλάκα, ανδρείκελο (dummy, marionette, puppet), τυφλό όργανο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוקיון (buffoon, clown, harlequin, zany), עוזר לקומיקן, בוב" (doll, dummy, figurehead, moppet, poppet, puppet). (various references) | |
Hungarian | stróman (dummy, strawman), besúgó (canary, crab, denunciator, finger, fink, informer, lurker, sneak, snitcher, spy, squealer, stool pigeon, stoolie, sycophant). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kakitangan (accomplice, henchman). (various references) | |
Korean | 조연. (various references) | |
Manx | goayr [f] (goat, scad), goayr (goat, scad). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oogestay.(various references) | |
Russian | посмешище (butt, laughing stock, laughingstock, mock, mockery, scoff, stooges). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | paćenik koji ispašta za tuđe grehove, osoba koja služi za ismevanje, marioneta (marionette, puppet). (various references) | |
Spanish | secuaz (devotee, follower, hanger, henchman, jackal, minion, retainer, trailer), paniaguado (jackal, minion), hombre de paja (dummy, straw man), compañero (associate, brother, buddy, chum, colleague, companion, compeer, Comrade, fellow, friend at court, mate, pal, partner, schoolfellow, sidekick). (various references) | |
Swedish | skottavla (target), vara underhuggare, vara skottavla, underhuggare (jackal, petty official, satellite, sidekick, underling). (various references) | |
Turkish | yardakçı (abettor, accessary, accessory, bottle-holder), yamak, muhbir (delator, denunciator, finger, finger man, informant, informer, intelligencer, nark, rat, reporter, setter, snout, split, squealer, squealler, stool pigeon, tipster), ikiliden gülünç duruma düşeni, herif (blighter, bloke, bozo, bugger, Buster, cove, cuss, customer, Dick, dog, fellow, guy, Johnny, josser, mug, sod, varlet), şamaroğlanı, alet olan kimse (creature), acemi olmak, acemi (apprentice, beginner, bungler, callow, catechumen, clumsy, colt, cub, dabster, green, greenhorn, guiltless, half-baked, inept, inexperienced, inexperienced hand, inexpert, jackaroo, johnny-come-lately, learner, neophyte, new, novice, Prentice, punk, raw, recruit, runnynose, simple, strange, stranger, sucking, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro, unbaked, unfledged, unseasoned, unskilled, untrained, unversed, young, young in one's job). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | маріонетка (marionette, poppet, puppet), актор, що пода" репліки із залу, партнер коміка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người phụ việc bù nhìn người tập lái máy bay. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stooge": stooged, stooges. (additional references) | |
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"Stooge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Estaugh, scooge, snoge, soge, souge, spooge, spouge, srooge, stog, stoga, stoge, stogee, stogen, stogey, stogg, stogged, stoig, stooce, stooged, stoogey, stoogie, stoogy, stoole, storga, stuge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-o-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: goose. | |
-2 letters: egos, gest, gets, goes, goos, oots, sego, soot, tegs, toes, togs. | |
-3 letters: ego, get, goo, gos, got, oes, oot, ose, seg, set, sot, teg, toe, tog, too. | |
-4 letters: es, et, go, oe, os, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-o-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: gentoos, gooiest, outgoes, stooged, stooges. | |
+2 letters: bootlegs, footages, goofiest, goopiest, goosiest, grottoes, rootages, stegodon, theologs. | |
+3 letters: doggonest, ecologist, enologist, footgears, geologist, gloomiest, goldstone, gonocytes, goodliest, goosefoot, grooviest, guestroom, logotypes, oogametes, osteology, otologies, outdodges, oxtongues, stegodons. | |
+4 letters: astrologer, autogenous, besoothing, cetologies, cetologist, congestion, creosoting, cytologies, ecologists, enologists, ergonomist, ergosterol, ethologies, ethologist, etiologies, festooning, fetologies, fetologist, floodgates, gastronome, gemologist, geologists, geotropism, ghostwrote, godmothers, goitrogens, goldstones, goosefoots, guestrooms, halogetons, hotdoggers, ideologist, logotypies, obsoleting, ontogenies, ontologies, osteogenic, outgrossed, outgrosses, outrageous, pedologist, penologist, prorogates, reshooting, rheologist, serologist, sexologist, sitologies, stereology, theogonies, theologies, theologise, theologues, tocologies, tokologies, topologies, typologies, vagotomies. | |
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