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Definition: Supping |
SuppingNoun1. Ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "supping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: Supping |
| English words defined with "supping": Cenation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "supping": Death from Strange Causes. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Slurp; slurping; sop; sponge; suck; sup; supping; sucking; sopping; . |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Supping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Supping" is used about 22 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
car supping up | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "supping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | szürcsölés (slurp, slurping). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | goaill shibbyr (sup), giu (drinking). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | uppingsay ужинать (dine, dined, have supper, supped). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "supping": oversupping. (additional references) | |
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"Supping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: seppings, souping, sumping, supin, supring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: uppings. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-p-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: pignus, pinups, spuing, upping. | |
-2 letters: pings, pinup, pungs, suing, using. | |
-3 letters: gins, gips, gnus, guns, nips, pigs, ping, pins, pips, pugs, pung, puns, pups, sign, sing, snip, snug, spin, spun, sung. | |
-4 letters: gin, gip, gnu, gun, ins, nip, nus, pig, pin, pip, pis, piu, psi, pug, pun, pup, pus, sin, sip, sun, sup, uns. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-p-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: cuppings, suppling, upspring. | |
+2 letters: purposing, supplying, supposing, upsprings. | |
+3 letters: scuppering, septupling, supporting, unshipping, unsnapping, unstepping, unstopping, upstepping, upsweeping. | |
+4 letters: oversupping, resupplying, superhyping, superposing, supplanting, suppressing, suppurating, unstrapping, uppercasing, upspringing. | |
+5 letters: outcroppings, outstripping, popularising, presupposing, supplicating, unstoppering. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Sounds | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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