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Full-bodied

Definition: Full-bodied

Full-bodied

Adjective

1. Marked by richness and fullness of flavor; "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee".

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

Date "full-bodied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)


Specialty Definition: Full-bodied

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Term applied to a wine rich in body or substance; high extract content. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Full-bodied

Synonyms: rich (adj), robust (adj). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: full (food & agriculture), full bodied, meaty, rich.

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Crosswords: Full-bodied

English words defined with "full-bodied": Saint Emilion. (references)
Specialty definitions using "full-bodied": tarry taste. (references)

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Modern Usage: Full-bodied

DomainUsage

Screenplays

More like a full-bodied dry heave set to music. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

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

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Commercial Usage: Full-bodied

DomainTitle

Books

  • Full-Bodied Red (Thorndike Large Print General) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Full-bodied

"Full-bodied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Full-bodied" is used about 40 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%4054,274

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

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Modern Translation: Full-bodied

Language Translations for "full-bodied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

me aromë (spicy), i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, dummy, fat, fatuous, fool, full-fed, gross, gruff, lardy, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, purblind, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, stupid, tactless, thick, uncouth, viscous, wooden, wooden-headed). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏ضخم الجسم. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

гъст (bushy, dense, double, gross, heavy, impenetrable, rich, stiff, stringy, thick, turbid, viscous), възпълен, пълноценен. (various references)

   

Danish

  

fyldig (full, full bodied, full falvour, full taste, fullness, meaty, rich, robust, spacious), med krop (fullness, meaty, robust). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vlezig (meaty). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

täyteläinen (mellow, plump, rich). (various references)

   

French

  

qui a de corps, corsé, charnu, bien en chair. (various references)

   

German

  

würzig (aromatic, fragrant, fruity, piquant, spicily, spicy, tangy, tasty), mündig (appetizing, of age, responsible, Savory, savoury), körperreich (full falvour, full taste, fullness, meaty, robust). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σαρκωμένος (meaty). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

testes (abdominous, big, bulky, burly, buxom, corpulent, dumpy, fat, have plenty of beef, obese). (various references)

   

Italian

  

corpulento (burly, corpulent, fat, obese, portly, pursy, stout, tubby), corpo (body, corps, corpus, form, frame, shape, staff). (various references)

   

Manx

  

thaagagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ull-bodiedfay

   

Portuguese

  

encorpado (corpulent, fat, fullbodied, thick). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

полный (absolute, abysmal, all out, complete, corpulent, crowded, entire, exhaustive, floor-to-floor, flush, fraught, fubsy, full, full-length, implicit, in flesh, in the flesh, integrate, out and out, outright, overall, plenary, plug-to-plug, plum, portly, rotund, round, seamless, teetotal, thorough, total, unabbreviated, unabridged, uncut, utter). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dobrog ukusa i mirisa. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

de cuerpo (meaty). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fyllig (ample, buxom, detailed, full, full-flavored, full-flavoured, mellow, orotund, plump, rich, well-rounded), mustig (juicy, racy, rich), köttig (fleshy, meaty). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

міцний (abiding, able bodied, bastard, beefy, buirdly, deep, endurable, enduring, entrenched, fast, firm, lasting, lusty, oaky, racy, sledge hammer, stable, stalwart, staunch, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, tenacious, tough, wakeless, well knit), повнотілий. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

ngon (dainty, dodge, rich, succulent, toothsome). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Full-bodied

Misspellings

"Full-bodied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fullbodied. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Full-bodied

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-f-i-l-l-o-u"

-3 letters: builded, bullied, doleful, dollied, doubled.

-4 letters: befoul, bifold, billed, bodied, boiled, bolide, bolled, boulle, buddle, bulled, dildoe, dilled, doiled, dolled, double, duelli, duello, dulled, fiddle, filled, foible, foiled, folded, fouled, fuddle, fulled, lobule.

-5 letters: bided, bield, blued, boded, boule, build, dildo, diode, dobie, doled, felid, field, filed, fille, fillo, flied, flued, fluid, idled.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Full-bodied


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

46 75 6C 6C 2D 62 6F 64 69 65 64

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

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

01000110 01110101 01101100 01101100 00101101 01100010 01101111 01100100 01101001 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#117 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#98 &#111 &#100 &#105 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0075 006C 006C 002D 0062 006F 0064 0069 0065 0064

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

4087787815688170757170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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