Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Watery-eyed

Date "watery-eyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)


Synonyms: Watery-eyed

Synonyms: teary (adj), teary-eyed (adj). (additional references)

Top     

Usage Frequency: Watery-eyed

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

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

Top     

Modern Translations: Watery-eyed

Language Translations for "watery-eyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

triefäugig (blear eyed, bleareyed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atery-eyedway

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: Watery-eyed

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.

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

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Watery-eyed


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

57 61 74 65 72 79 2D 65 79 65 64

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

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

01010111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 01111001 00101101 01100101 01111001 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#121 &#45 &#101 &#121 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 0074 0065 0072 0079 002D 0065 0079 0065 0064

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

5767867184911571917170

Top     

 

Bibliographic Items: "watery-eyed"


Top     

Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "watery-eyed"

Top     

Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: Watery-eyed