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Definition: Wedgie |
WedgieNoun1. A shoe with a wedge heel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Wedgie n. [Fairchild] A bug. Prob. related to wedged. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: WedgieSynonym: wedgies (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've got a major wedgie! (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera) Donnie, now is not the time for the wedgie dance (The Wild Thornberrys Movie; writing credit: Arlene Klasky; Gabor Csupo) Okay, I have a wedgie. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
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Books | |
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| "Wedgie" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wedgie" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wedgie": wedgier, wedgies, wedgiest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-w" | |
-1 letter: wedge. | |
-2 letters: edge, eide, geed, gied, weed, wide. | |
-3 letters: dee, dew, die, dig, ewe, ged, gee, gid, gie, wed, wee, wig. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, id, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-i-w" | |
+1 letter: pigweed, wedgier, wedgies, weeding, weighed. | |
+2 letters: bedewing, bewigged, bewinged, edgewise, pigweeds, wedeling, wedgiest, weighted, weregild. | |
+3 letters: earwigged, rewedding, reweighed, rewelding, tweedling, waveguide, wendigoes, weregilds, wheedling. | |
+4 letters: deadweight, dewatering, outweighed, periwigged, reendowing, rewidening, unweighted, waveguides, weekending. | |
+5 letters: bewildering, deadweights, deflowering, overweighed, underweight. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 65 64 67 69 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -.. --. .. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100101 01100100 01100111 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W e d g i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0065 0064 0067 0069 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)577170737571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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