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Definition: Tawny |
TawnyAdjective1. Of a light brown to brownish orange color. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Tawny" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "light brown". |
Date "tawny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Note: Tawny \Taw"ny\, adjective. [Comparative Tawnier; superlative Tawniest.]. (references) |
Crosswords: Tawny |
| English words defined with "tawny": Alderney, Alexandria senna, Alexandrian senna, Artemisia frigida ♦ Cassia acutifolia, Cassia augustifolia, Cortinarius armillatus, Cortinarius atkinsonianus, Cortinarius corrugatus ♦ false beachdrops, Felis serval, Fulvous ♦ Gray owl ♦ Haastia pulvinaris, Hylocichla fuscescens ♦ Indian senna ♦ king of beasts ♦ leopard, lion ♦ Monotropa hypopithys ♦ Olivaster ♦ Panthera leo, Panthera pardus, Panthera tigris, Pholiota squarrosa-adiposa, Pholiota squarrosoides, pinesap, prairie sagewort ♦ Rufous ♦ Senna alexandrina, serval, sheep plant, Simpai, Sparaxis tricolor, Subfuscous, Swarthily, Swartish, Swarty ♦ tabby, tabby cat, tawniness, tiger, tinnevelly senna, Tinto, true senna ♦ Ullet ♦ veery, vegetable sheep ♦ wandflower, Wilson's thrush, wormwood sage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tawny": Pied Piper of Hamelin. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tawny": Tan. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Tawny Pipit (1944) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Hardly had he had time to take a few steps in the hall, when the door opened and his tawny and cunning face again appeared |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | In the silence their dark fire kindled the dusk into a tawny glow |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The sunlight glistened on hair tawny with dust |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The Rice Rat (Oryzomys palustris) is slightly smaller than the cotton rat, having a head and body 5 - 6 inches long, plus a very long, 4- to 7-inch tail. Rice rats sport short, soft, grayish brown fur on top, and gray or tawny underbellies. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tawny" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 87.93% of the time. "Tawny" is used about 116 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 87.93% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.76% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.31% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 116 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tawny" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tawny | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,438 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Tawny" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "light brown". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Tawny." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Tawnie | Female | English | Tawny |
| Tawny | Female | English | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "tawny": tawny eagle ♦ tawny owl. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tawny": tawny-blond, tawny-coloured, tawny-haired, tawny-limbed, tawny-shouldered. | |
Ending with "tawny": orange-tawny. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tawny roberts | 1,619 | even stevens tawny | 21 |
tawny kitaen | 579 | julie tawny | 21 |
tawny | 348 | babe tawny | 20 |
tawny stone | 278 | free pic roberts tawny | 19 |
tawny peak | 251 | tawny roberts picture | 17 |
dean tawny | 65 | little tawny | 17 |
tawny roberts pic | 61 | free movie roberts tawny | 17 |
dahl tawny | 38 | free roberts tawny | 16 |
tawny roberts gallery | 36 | tawny owl | 16 |
hardcore roberts tawny | 35 | anal roberts tawny | 16 |
tawny kitaen nude | 34 | tawny kitaen photo | 12 |
kitean tawny | 32 | robert tawny | 12 |
tawny roberts nude | 29 | tawny roberts video | 12 |
porn roberts star tawny | 27 | clip roberts tawny | 12 |
mpeg roberts tawny | 26 | nude tawny | 12 |
tawny pearl | 25 | free mpeg roberts tawny | 11 |
kitaen pic tawny | 23 | gallery kitaen tawny | 10 |
tawny port | 22 | amber tawny young | 10 |
tawny kitaen picture | 21 | mpeg peak tawny | 10 |
tawny roberts movie | 21 | avi roberts tawny | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tawny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i mushkëllyer, i kuqërremë (auburn, red, ruddy, russet, Sandy). (various references) | |
Arabic | سمرة مصفرة, أسمر مصفر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | светлокафяв (fallow, tan), жълтеникавокафяв (fulvous, khaki, lurid, tan). (various references) | |
Chinese | 黃褐色 (tan). (various references) | |
Czech | zlatohnìdý, žlutohnìdý (buff, fawn, fulvous, umber). (various references) | |
Danish | steppeoern (steppe eagle, tawny eagle), rødgul daglilje (tawny daylily), natugle (tawny owl), markpiber (tawny pipit). (various references) | |
Dutch | steppenarend (steppe eagle, tawny eagle), duinpieper (tawny pipit), bruine daglelie (tawny daylily), bosuil (tawny owl). (various references) | |
Finnish | rusopäivänlilja (tawny daylily), lehtopöllö (tawny owl). (various references) | |
French | fauve (tan). (various references) | |
German | lohfarben, goldbraun, gelbbraun (buff, fallow, tan, tawniness). (various references) | |
Greek | κιτρινομαύροσ, καστανόξανθοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חום צ"וב (buff). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sárgásbarna (fawn, mulatto, russet, russety), homokszínű. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kuning tua. (various references) | |
Italian | rossiccio (foxy, reddish), fulvo (fulvous, rufous), abbronzato (bronzy, sunburnt, tanned). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 茶色 (light brown). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ちゃいろ (light brown). (various references) | |
Manx | ouyr (dun, pale yellow, yellow-dun, yellowish), loaghtan, cartagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awnytay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | moreno (brown, dark, duskiness, dusky, swarthy), fulvo (fulvous), amarelo-acastanhado. (various references) | |
Romanian | roşiatic (pinkish, reddish, russet, Sandy), pârlit de soare (weather beaten), negru (black, blackened, Brown, coon, dark, dirtiness, dirty, foul, ghost writer, grimy, hidden, jim crow, negro, penny-a-liner, sable, sun-burnt, swarthy, wicked). (various references) | |
Russian | светло-коричневый, рыжевато-коричневый, темно-желтый. (various references) | |
Scottish | lachdunn (swarthy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žutomrk (khaki, snuff, tan). (various references) | |
Spanish | leonado (fulvous), color leonado. (various references) | |
Swedish | läderfärgad, brungul. (various references) | |
Thai | สีน้ำตาลอมส้ม, ยอ" (apical). (various references) | |
Turkish | sarımsı kahverengi, esmer (Blackie, Blacky, brunette, dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | смаглявий (swart, swarthy), рудувато-брунатний (orange-tawny, tan). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hung hung ngăm ngăm đen. (various references) | |
Welsh | melynddu (swarthy), melynaidd (yellowish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kirrhos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Anthus campestris, Aquila rapax, fulvo, Hemerocallis fulva L., Limax flavus, RM:pivet cotschn, RM:tschuetta, Strix aluco, tschuetta da guaud. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "tawny": mulligatawny. (additional references) | |
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"Tawny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dawny, fawny, pawny, rawni, taney, tanny, tanry, tany, tauny, tawmy, tawn, tawne, tawney, Tawneys, tawry, Tegwyn, Tejwani, tewn, tewy, thawn, towny, twan, twangy, Twanky, twant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tawny" (pronounced tÄ"nē) |
| 3 | -Ä" n ē | Afghani, Bonnie, bonny, Johnny, Guarani, rani. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-t-w-y" | |
-1 letter: awny, want, wany, yawn. | |
-2 letters: ant, any, awn, naw, nay, tan, taw, twa, wan, wat, way, wyn, yaw. | |
-3 letters: an, at, aw, ay, na, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-t-w-y" | |
+1 letter: tawney, twangy, twanky. | |
+2 letters: tawneys, tawnily. | |
+3 letters: entryway, sternway, thrawnly, trainway, wantonly, warranty. | |
+4 letters: entryways, slantways, standaway, sternways, trainways, wyandotte. | |
+5 letters: lengthways, pantywaist, shantytown, untowardly, wyandottes. | |
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