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Date "watery-eyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Synonyms: Watery-eyedSynonyms: teary (adj), teary-eyed (adj). (additional references) |
| "Watery-eyed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Watery-eyed" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "watery-eyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | triefäugig (blear eyed, bleareyed). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | atery-eyedway | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-r-t-w-y-y" | |
-2 letters: eyewater. | |
-3 letters: dewater, eyewear, tarweed, watered. | |
-4 letters: derate, drawee, eatery, redate, redeye, tawdry, teared, tweedy, warted, watery, weeder, weeted. | |
-5 letters: arete, dater, deary, derat, deray, deter, dewar, eared, eater, etwee, rated, rayed, ready, redye, reedy, rewed, rewet, tardy, tared, tawed, tawer, teary, tewed, trade, tread, treed, tweed, twyer, tyred, wader, wared, warty, water, weary. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 74 65 72 79 2D 65 79 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 01111001 00101101 01100101 01111001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a t e r y - e y e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 0074 0065 0072 0079 002D 0065 0079 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5767867184911571917170 |
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