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Definition: Howdy |
HowdyNoun1. An expression of greeting; "every morning they exchanged polite hellos". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "howdy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references) |
Etymology: Howdy \How"dy\, noun. [Scot., also houdy- wife. Of uncertain origin; compare to OSw. jordgumma; or perhaps from English how d'ye.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: HowdySynonyms: hello (n), hi (n), how-do-you-do (n), hullo (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We've got Captain Howdy! (Hysterical; writing credit: Chris Bearde; Bill Hudson) Boy Howdy! I've got blisters in places I didn't even know I had places. (The Big Valley; writing credit: Jean-Claude Carrière) Howdy Doody time? (Back to the Future Part III; writing credit: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale) Howdy, Bill! (Eddie; writing credit: Steve Zacharias; Jeff Buhai) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Howdy (1970) Broadway Howdy (1929) Howdy Duke (1926) It's Howdy Doody Time (1987) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Mister Eisenhower says "Howdy". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Howdy! I'm Ross Perot and I'm running for president" / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bob Smith, chairman of the Westchester County Cerebral Palsy campaign, introduces Howdy Doody to Max Holland, aged 4, of Bronxville, and Robert Morgenroth, aged 13, of Larchmont, both receiving special training for cerebral palsy children. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Rudy Richards, as Calypso Pete in "Howdy Mr. Ice". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Howdy" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Howdy" is used about 6 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 |
| Interjection | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "howdy": howdy-doody. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "howdy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | tag (day). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | owdyhay hejsan (cheerio, hallo, hello, hello there, hey, hi, hi there, hullo), hej (cheerio, hallo, hello, hey, hi, hullo), mors. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "howdy": howdying. (additional references) | |
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"Howdy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heddy, hewy, hoadie, hodey, hodi, Hodie, hody, hoidy, hondy, Hoodie, Hoody, houdy, Howdee, howdi, howdie, howd'ya, howdys, Howeys, Howiya, How'y, how'ya, Huddy, Iholdy, owdy, rhodyn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "howdy" (pronounced hou"dē) |
| 3 | -ou" d ē | cloudy, dowdy, rowdy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-h-o-w-y" | |
-1 letter: dhow, yodh. | |
-2 letters: dow, hod, how, hoy, who, why, yod, yow. | |
-3 letters: do, ho, od, oh, ow, oy, wo, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-h-o-w-y" | |
+2 letters: shadowy. | |
+3 letters: dowdyish, honeydew, howdying, rowdyish. | |
+4 letters: honeydews, shadowily. | |
+5 letters: bawdyhouse, hydropower, roadworthy. | |
| 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)48 6F 77 64 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- .--. -.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01110111 01100100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o w d y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 0077 0064 0079 |
| 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)4281897091 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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