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Definition: Lurcher |
LurcherNoun1. Someone waiting in concealment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lurcher" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | LURCHER. A lurcher of the law; a bum bailiff, or his setter. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: LurcherSynonyms: lurker (n), skulker (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lurcher |
| English words defined with "lurcher": Volyer. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Lurcher" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "Lurcher" is used about 30 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 (singular) | 93.33% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lurcher | 28 |
dog lurcher | 6 |
greyhound lurcher terrier | 5 |
lurcher rescue | 2 |
lurcher puppy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lurcher"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | xhepist (pickpocket), vjedhës (burglar, cat burglar, cracksman, hooker, larcenous, peculator, pickpocket, pilferer, prig, robber, sneak, thief), spiun (agent, company checkers, fink, operator, overlooker, rat, Spier, spy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шпионин (intelligencer, nark, nose, secret agent, spy), крадец на дребно (magpie, pilferer, scrounger, sneak, sneak thief), непородисто ловджийско куче, мелез (half blood, half breed, hybrid, mongrel, scrub, yellow dog), бракониер (poacher, trespasser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pytlák (poacher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tolvaj (burglar, filch, larcener, larcenist, nicker, picklock, pilferer, pincher, purloiner, scrounge, scrounger, stealer, sticky fingers, taker, thief). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urcherlay ladrão (burglar, cracksman, gangster, landscape, larcenous, lifting, lop, reaver, reiver, robber, rustler, thief), roubar (abstract, bereave, bone, cabbage, despoil, embezzle funds, extort money, faked, file, grab-all, holdback, kidnapper, loot, make away with oneself, nab, picayune, pick, piratical, plunder, priggish, purloin, rifle, Rob, rustle, screw out of, scrounge, snitch, snoop, steal, strip, swipe, take away, thieve), gatuno (black list, lifter, light footed, pickpocket, pilgrim, prig, prowler, shark, sharp, sharper, thief, thievish). (various references) tâlhar (brigand, captor, cracksman, footpad, gangster, harrier, highwayman, miscreant, robber, rogue, scoundrel, sharp, thief), spion (beagle, intelligence, intelligencer, spy, surveillant, tale teller), pungaş (biter, cheat, Cutpurse, duffer, fraud, gun, jockey, juggler, knave, manipulator, mountebank, pickpocket, pilferer, prig, rascal, rogue, rook, rough, scab, shark, snap, swindler, thief). (various references) собака-ищейка (sleuth), воришка (nipper, pilferer, purloiner, scrounger). (various references) gadhar , gaothar (lurcher dog), gadhar (grey-hound, lurcher dog). (various references) lovački pas (harrier, hound, sleuthhound, tracker), onaj koji vreba. (various references) kringsmygande person. (various references) ขโมย (cop, mooch, steal, thief, thieve). (various references) pusucu (ambusher, sniper), hırsız (burglar, cracksman, hijacker, housebreaker, larcener, larcenist, lifter, picaroon, pilferer, purloiner, robber, scrounger, shifter, shoplifter, thief, yegg, yeggman), dolandırıcı (adventurer, bilker, carpet bagger, cheat, cheater, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, crook, crooked, deceitful, double-dealer, faker, fakir, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, grifter, gyp, hustler, impostor, knave, rogue, sham, shark, sharp, spieler, swindler, Twicer). (various references) mật thám (bull, busy, cop, copper, informer, nark, pig), kẻ trộm kẻ rình mò, kẻ cắp (cutpurse, filcher, purloiner, stealer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lurcher": lurchers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-l-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: curler, hurler. | |
-2 letters: churl, churr, cruel, curer, lucre, lurch, lurer, recur, ruche, ruler, ulcer. | |
-3 letters: clue, cure, curl, curr, ecru, herl, hurl, lech, lehr, luce, lure, ruer, rule. | |
-4 letters: cel, cue, cur, ecu, err, her, hue, leu, rec, rue. | |
-5 letters: eh, el, er, he, re, uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-l-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: lurchers. | |
+3 letters: churchlier. | |
+4 letters: cheerfuller, huckleberry, reproachful. | |
+5 letters: characterful, chartularies, fluorochrome, horticulture, unrhetorical. | |
| 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)4C 75 72 63 68 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. ..- .-. -.-. .... . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01110101 01110010 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L u r c h e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0075 0072 0063 0068 0065 0072 |
| 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)46878469747184 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albán, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, alban, Arnavut |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, cseh, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, người Séc tiếng Séc |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, magyar, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugál, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, román, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumänsk |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Scottish | foclair, abardair, faclair, briathrachan | skocez, шотландски, skotský, skót, escocês, scoţian, шотландский, škotski jezik, škotski, škotlanđani, skotsk, iskoçyalı |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, svéd, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | tailandês, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, török, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turkisk, türkçe, türk, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, angol, inglês, englezesc, английский, beurla, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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