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Tawse

Definition: Tawse

Tawse

Noun

1. (Scot) a leather strap for punishing children.

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

Usage Frequency: Tawse

"Tawse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tawse" is used about 10 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%10111,207

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tawse

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

tawse

99

lochgelly tawse

8

bobbie tawse

6

school tawse

6

leather tawse tawse

5

bottom tawse

4

tawse whip

4

spanking tawse

4

punishment tawse

2

paddle tawse

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tawse

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

Pig Latin

  

awsetay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

açoite (lash, quirt, scourge, whip). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kırbaç (horsewhip, kourbash, kurbash, scourge, taws, whip, whipper). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Tawse

Derivations

Words beginning with "tawse": tawsed, tawses. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Tawse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sweat, twaes, waste.

Words within the letters "a-e-s-t-w"

-1 letter: ates, awes, east, eats, etas, sate, seat, seta, staw, stew, swat, taws, teas, tews, twae, twas, waes, wast, wats, west, wets.

-2 letters: ate, awe, eat, eta, sae, sat, saw, sea, set, sew, tae, tas, taw, tea, tew, twa, wae, was, wat, wet.

-3 letters: ae, as, at, aw, es, et, ta, we.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-s-t-w"
 

+1 letter: rawest, swathe, sweats, sweaty, tawers, tawsed, tawses, tweaks, wadset, wasted, waster, wastes, waters, wheats.

 

+2 letters: bawties, brawest, dawties, fretsaw, seawant, steward, stewpan, stowage, strawed, swathed, swather, swathes, swatted, swatter, sweated, sweater, tawneys, tawnies, tawpies, taxwise, thawers, towages, twasome, wadsets, wafters, waisted, waister, waiters, wallets, waltzes, waniest, wannest, wanters, wariest, warmest, warstle, wastage, wasters, wastery, wastrel, wastrie, watapes, watches, wattest, wattles, waviest, waxiest, weakest, wealths, wrastle, wreaths.

 

+3 letters: awaiters, bawdiest, bedstraw, beltways, bestowal, dewaters, dwarfest, eastward, enswathe, fawniest, flatwise, flawiest, fretsaws, gateways, gawkiest, getaways, inswathe, newscast, outsware, outswear, outwaste, outwears, pawkiest, radwaste, sawteeth, seatwork, seawants, seawater, software, somewhat, stemware, sternway, stewards, stewpans, stowable, stowages, strawier, swankest, swatches, swathers, swatters, sweatbox, sweaters, sweatier, sweatily, sweating, tarweeds, tawdries, tawniest, teabowls, teawares, thawless, tideways, tinwares, towheads, trawlers, trawleys, twaddles, twangers, twangles, twankies, twasomes, twattles, unswathe, unwasted, wackiest, waftages, waftures, waisters, waitress, waltzers, wantages, warstled, warstler, warstles, wartiest, wartimes, wartless, washiest, waspiest, wastable, wastages, wasteful, wastelot, wasterie, wasteway, wastrels, wastries, watchers, waterers, waterish, wattages, wattapes, wattless, wavelets, weariest, weathers, westward, wetbacks, wetlands, wetwares, whatness, wheatens, wiretaps, wisteria, wrastled, wrastles, wreathes.

 

+4 letters: awestruck, awfullest, backswept, bedstraws, bestowals, brawliest, brawniest, browbeats, callowest, coastwise, crawliest, crewmates, cutwaters, dameworts, daneworts, dawsonite, dishwater, downbeats, downstage, downstate, drawliest, drawtubes, eastwards, enswathed, enswathes, entryways, eyewaters, flatwares, fleaworts, giftwares, inswathed, inswathes, latewoods, leadworts, leastways, leastwise, leftwards, megawatts, narrowest, newsagent, newscasts, newsstand, outswears, outwashes, outwasted, outwastes, pastedown, radwastes, rosewater, routeways, sallowest, saltwater, sawtimber, seatworks, seawaters, seaworthy, shortwave, slantwise, smartweed, softwares, somewhats, spearwort, stairwell, statewide, stemwares, sternward, sternways, stewarded, stonewall, stoneware, strawiest, swampiest, swankiest, swarthier, swartness, sweatband, sweatiest, sweatshop, sweetmeat, takedowns, tapeworms, tawdriest, tawniness, teakwoods, teamworks, tearaways, teardowns, terawatts, thwackers, thwarters, townscape, trawlnets, treelawns, twaddlers, twangiest, twanglers, tweakiest, unswathed, unswathes, unwariest, viewdatas, wabbliest, wadsetted, waistline, wambliest, wantoners, warstlers, wasteland, wastelots, wasteries, wasteways, watchcase, watcheyes, waterages, waterbeds, waterdogs, wateriest, waterings, waterless, waterlogs, waterloos, watershed, waterside, waterways, weakliest, welfarist, westwards, whackiest, whatsises, wheatears, whitecaps, whitewash, wisterias, workmates, wrathiest, yawmeters.

 

+5 letters: afterglows, afterwards, afterwords, awkwardest, backwaters, basketwork, bathwaters, breastwork, buckwheats, cartwheels, caterwauls, cowlstaves, dawsonites, deathblows, delftwares, dewaterers, dishwaters, dogwatches, downstages, downstater, downstates, downstream, drawplates, earthwards, earthworks, earthworms, earwitness, enswathing, enwreathes, firewaters, flatwashes, flyswatter, forwardest, freshwater, handwrites, headwaters, heartwoods, heartworms, kittiwakes, lengthways, limewaters, lusterware, masterwork, meltwaters, metalwares, metalworks, midwatches, newmarkets, newsagents, newscaster, newsstands, outlawries, outwatches, outwearies, overwaters, pastedowns, polywaters, powerboats, rainwaters, sawtimbers, scrawliest, scrawniest, sewability, shadowiest, shallowest, shearwater, shortwaves, showboated, smartweeds, spearworts, sportswear, sprawliest, stairwells, starflower, sternwards, stewardess, stewarding, stonewalls, stonewares, strawberry, swarthiest, sweatbands, sweatboxes, sweatiness, sweatpants, sweatshirt, sweatshops, sweepstake, sweetbread, sweetbriar, sweetheart, sweetmeats, switchable, swoopstake, tablewares, tailwaters, tawdriness, thwartwise, tidewaters, townscapes, treenwares, twayblades, unwreathes, wadsetting, wagonettes, wainscoted, waistlines, waitperson, waitressed, waitresses, wanderlust, wantonness, wapentakes, warbonnets, warrantees, warranters, warranties, washateria, washeteria, wastefully, wastelands, wastepaper, wastewater, watchables, watchcases, watchcries, waterbirds, waterbucks, watercress, waterfalls, waterfowls, wateriness, waterleafs, waterlines, watermarks, waterscape, watersheds, watersides, waterspout, waterweeds, waterworks, waterzoois, wattmeters, wealthiest, welfarists, whaleboats, whatnesses, whatsoever, whitebaits, whitefaces, whiteheads, whitetails, whitewalls, womanliest, workbasket, worktables, wyandottes, wyliecoats.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tawse


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 77 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-    .--.    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01110111 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#119 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 0077 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5467898571

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INDEX

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


  

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