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Definition: Huddled |
HuddledAdjective1. Squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down". 2. Crowded or massed together; "give me...your huddled masses"; "the huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "huddled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: HuddledSynonyms: crouched (adj), crouching (adj), hunkered (adj), hunkered down (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Huddled |
| English words defined with "huddled": Aheap ♦ crouched, crouching ♦ hunkered, hunkered down ♦ miserable ♦ nakedly ♦ protection ♦ shelter, suffering ♦ wretched. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "huddled": Royal Merchant. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "huddled": Huddle. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Huddled masses of human freight. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Two teachers huddled in front of fireplace in schoolroom in Russia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Group of Negro berry pickers huddled around the stove trying to keep warm on a cold day in the berry picking season. Near Independence, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Two Friends Sitting in a Park" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "Two young women sit huddled together on the grass in a city park. Visit: http://www.qr5.com ." | "Three Kings In Shadow" by Matt Williams Commentary: "A shot of my chimney against the sky. With the little gaps in the top of the pots I thought they looked like three evil kings huddled together plotting something." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In one corner, on a ragged old scrap of carpet, was a haggard woman, and a number of children were huddled together |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Men and women huddled in their houses, and they tied handkerchiefs over their noses when they went out, and wore goggles to protect their eyes |
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| "Huddled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 60.92% of the time. "Huddled" is used about 238 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 60.92% | 145 | 26,217 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 24.79% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 238 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "huddled": be huddled. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "huddled": huddled-up. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
huddled | 8 |
huddled masses | 4 |
give huddled masses poor tired | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "huddled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 挤作一团 (Huddling). (various references) | |
German | gepresst (uptight). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 縮こまる (to be huddled, to curl oneself up, to squeeze oneself in). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ちぢこまる (to be huddled, to curl oneself up, to squeeze oneself in). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uddledhay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Huddled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chuddley, haddle, hidded, hudded, Huddgl, huttled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "huddled" (pronounced hu"duld) |
| 5 | -u" d u l d | befuddled, cuddled, muddled. |
| 4 | -d u l d | addled, backpedaled, bridled, bundled, coddled, kindled, ladled, dwindled, fiddled, fondled, handled, idled, manhandled, mishandled, modeled, needled, paddled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, rekindled, remodeled, riddled, saddled, straddled, swindled, trundled, unbridled, widdled. |
| 3 | -u l d | ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, belittled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bottled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cycled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, leveled, levelled, libeled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fizzled, flanneled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, humbled, hustled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, mangled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mislabeled, mottled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paneled, parceled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rankled, rattled, raveled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, resembled, resettled, reshuffled, reveled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumbled, rumpled, sampled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, subtitled, tabled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, trickled, tripled, troubled, tumbled, tussled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-d-e-h-l-u" | |
-1 letter: huddle. | |
-2 letters: duded. | |
-3 letters: dude, duel, held, hued, leud, lude. | |
-4 letters: del, dud, due, duh, edh, eld, hue, led, leu. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, eh, el, he, uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-d-e-h-l-u" | |
+4 letters: hundredfold. | |
+5 letters: muddleheaded. | |
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