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Definition: Nuthouse |
NuthouseNoun1. Pejorative terms for an insane asylum. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: NuthouseSynonyms: booby hatch (n), crazy house (n), cuckoo's nest (n), funny farm (n), funny house (n), loony bin (n), madhouse (n), nut house (n), sanatorium (n), snake pit (n). (additional references) |
| "Nuthouse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nuthouse" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
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 |
nuthouse | 10 |
grill nuthouse | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nuthouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | diliház (bin, booby hatch, crazyhouse, laughing academy, nut house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uthousenay сумасшедший дом (bedlam, booby hatch, loony-bin, lunatic asylum, madhouse, nut house, snakepit). (various references) tımarhane (bedlam, booby hatch, bughouse, funny farm, institution, loony bin, lunatic asylum, madhouse, mental hospital, snake pit), akıl hastanesi (asylum, booby hatch, bughouse, funny farm, insane asylum, loony bin, lunatic asylum, madhouse, mental home, mental hospital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "nuthouse": nuthouses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-n-o-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: tenuous, unhouse. | |
-2 letters: ethnos, honest, unshut. | |
-3 letters: ethos, hents, hones, hosen, house, hunts, notes, onset, seton, shent, shone, shote, shout, shunt, shute, snout, south, steno, stone, thens, those, thous, tones, tonus, touse, tunes, unset. | |
-4 letters: eons, eths, hens, hent, hest, hets, hoes, hone, hons, hose, host, hots, hues, huns, hunt, huts, nest, nets, noes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-n-o-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: nuthouses. | |
+2 letters: outpunches, thunderous. | |
+3 letters: sleuthhound, uncouthness, unrighteous. | |
+4 letters: buttonbushes, hebetudinous, sleuthhounds, thunderously, untouchables, youthfulness. | |
+5 letters: counterthrust, countinghouse, thunderclouds, uncouthnesses, unrighteously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 75 74 68 6F 75 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. ..- - .... --- ..- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01110101 01110100 01101000 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N u t h o u s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0075 0074 0068 006F 0075 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4887867481878571 |
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