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Definition: Twiggy |
TwiggyAdjective1. Resembling a twig. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "twiggy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
Synonym: TwiggySynonym: twiglike (adj). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Born Lesley Hornby in Neasden, a suburb of London, she became famous at the age of sixteen, under the influence of her boyfriend and manager, Justin de Villeneuve. Soon she was regarded as "the face" of swinging 1960s London, and gained her nickname from her stick-thin pubescent figure. As she matured, she ditched Villeneuve and broadened her horizons, appearing as an actress and singer, notably in Ken Russell's 1971 film version of The Boyfriend. Since then she has played a variety of roles on stage and screen, including Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, opposite Robert Powell, in a 1981 television production.
Her first marriage, to American actor, Michael Witney, ended with his sudden death. In 1988, she married the actor Leigh Lawson.
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Crosswords: Twiggy |
| English words defined with "twiggy": lavender cotton ♦ Twigsome. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "twiggy": Twigsome. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Twiggy (1975) | |
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| "Twiggy" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 58.06% of the time. "Twiggy" is used about 62 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 (proper) | 58.06% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 35.48% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (common) | 6.45% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "twiggy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | I Hollë (dainty, delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, keen, liny, meager, meagre, nice, paper, papery, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, politic, sleazy, slender, slim, small, spidery, spindling, spindly, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, washy), I Dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Силно азклонен, С Много Клонки. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όε 'λαστούσ, Αδύνατοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Sokágú. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iggytway ramoso (branchy), com rebentos, com galhos finos. (various references) Тонкий, 'етвистый. (various references) tanak kao grana. (various references) như một c nh con; gầy gò mảnh khảnh nhiều c nh con. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Twiggy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tiggy, Tigy, trigy, twiga, twigg, Twiggys, twigy, twingy, wiggy, wigy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "twiggy" (pronounced twi"gē) |
| 3 | -i" g ē | biggie, piggy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-i-t-w-y" | |
-1 letter: wiggy. | |
-2 letters: twig. | |
-3 letters: gig, git, wig, wit. | |
-4 letters: it, ti. | |
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