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Zaftig

Definition: Zaftig

Zaftig

Adjective

1. Euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies"; "pleasingly plump".

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

Date "zaftig" was first used: 1937. (references)


Synonyms: Zaftig

Synonyms: buxom (adj), chubby (adj), embonpoint (adj), plump (adj), zoftig (adj). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Zaftig

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

zaftig

45

woman zaftig

6

bette midler zaftig

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

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Ancestral Language Translations: Zaftig

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Middle High German1100-1500

saft. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Zaftig

Misspellings

"Zaftig" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saftig, zafdig, zafrig, zatfig, zefty, zetfig, zitig. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Zaftig

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-g-i-t-z"

-2 letters: fiat, gait, gift.

-3 letters: aft, ait, fag, fat, fig, fit, fiz, gat, git, tag, zag, zig, zit.

-4 letters: ag, ai, at, fa, if, it, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-g-i-t-z"
 

+5 letters: factorizing, fantasizing, fragmentize.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Zaftig


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

5A 61 66 74 69 67

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)

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

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

01011010 01100001 01100110 01110100 01101001 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#90 &#97 &#102 &#116 &#105 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

005A 0061 0066 0074 0069 0067

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

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

606772867573

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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