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Definition: Mongoose |
MongooseNoun1. Agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mongoose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references) |
Crosswords: Mongoose |
| English words defined with "mongoose": Herpestes ichneumon ♦ ichneumon, Indian mongoose ♦ Mongoos, Mungoos ♦ Woolly macaco. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Can I be a mongoose dog? (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck) That's for calling me a mongoose. (On Again Off Again; writing credit: Nat Perrin; Benny Rubin) Well, I just saw a picture of one in a bookbesides, I'm too tall for a mongoose! (On Again Off Again; writing credit: Nat Perrin; Benny Rubin) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The mongoose / O. Herford. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mongoose. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mongoose, Midge, [and] Dipper. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Trade | Trinidad | Certain knives, firearms, weapons and explosives, seditious publications, specific animals, such as monkeys and the mongoose, animals that have died in transit, used or second-hand animal blankets, saddle cloths, felting or pads, and dung, are also prohibited by law from importation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mongoose" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mongoose" is used about 19 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) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "mongoose": indian mongoose ♦ yellow mongoose. Additional references. | |
| 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 "mongoose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mangustë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | النمس (ichneumon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мангуста. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | art af desmerkat (Malagasy mongoose, taller fanalouc). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mungo (mungo), mangoest, ichneumon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | mungoto, mungo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mangouste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kurzschwanz-Manguste (indian brown mongoose), Krabben-Manguste (crab-eating mongoose), indischer Mungo (indian grey mongoose), indische Rotmanguste (ruddy mongoose), Halsstreifen-Manguste (stripe-necked mongoose), Grossfanaluk (Malagasy mongoose, taller fanalouc), Goldstaub-Manguste (small indian mongoose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιχνεύμων (ichneumon), μαγκούστα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מו 'ו, מי" (marten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mongúz, indiai menyét. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | rangangan, cerpelai (weasel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mangusta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | マンクス猫 (apartment house, large apartment, Manchester, mandarin, mandarin collar, Mandelbrot, mandrill, mango, mangosteen, mangrove, manteau, mantis, mantle, mantlepiece, man-to-man, man-to-man defense, Manx cat, monthly, Munshingwear, one-to-one, paying off one's entire credit card balance monthly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | マングース . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kayt injinagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ongoosemay mongolóide, mangusto (ichor). (various references) mangustã. (various references) мангуста. (various references) mungos. (various references) jerenyenje (white-tailed mongoose), hovo (dwarf mongoose), dzvovororo (banded mongoose), chidzvororo (water mongoose). (various references) mangosta. (various references) mungo. (various references) firavunfaresi. (various references) мангуста. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Eupleres major, Herpestes auropunctatus, Herpestes edwardsi, Herpestes fuscus, Herpestes smithii, Herpestes urva, Herpestes vitticollis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mongoose": mongooses. (additional references) | |
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"Mongoose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mangoose, minogues, Mlongoti, mongoes, Monogue, monrose, moongoose. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-m-n-o-o-o-s" | |
-1 letter: mongoes. | |
-2 letters: genoms, gnomes, mongoe, mongos. | |
-3 letters: genom, gnome, goons, goose, meson, mongo, monos, moons, moose, nomes, nomos, noose, omens, segno. | |
-4 letters: egos, engs, eons, gems, gens, goes, gone, goon, goos, megs, meno, mogs, mono, mons, moon, moos, noes, nogs, nome, noms, nose, omen, ones, sego, smog, snog, some, sone, song, soon. | |
-5 letters: ego, ems. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-m-n-o-o-o-s" | |
+1 letter: mongooses. | |
+2 letters: homogenous, homogonies, monologies, monologues, nomologies. | |
+3 letters: avgolemonos, cosmogonies, homogeneous. | |
+4 letters: demonologies, demonologist, entomologies, entomologist. | |
+5 letters: demonologists, entomologists, entomophagous, homeschooling, homogeneously, inhomogeneous, onomatologies, photomontages, prolegomenous. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 6E 67 6F 6F 73 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101110 01100111 01101111 01101111 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o n g o o s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 006E 0067 006F 006F 0073 0065 |
| 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)4781807381818571 |
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