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Definition: Powder-puff |
Powder-puffAdjective1. Used of competitive activities in which only women take part; "powder-puff baseball"; "a powder-puff football game" powder and shot. Noun1. Ammunition consisting of gunpowder and bullets for mus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "powder-puff" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
| "Powder-puff" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Powder-puff" 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) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "powder-puff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 粉末喘". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 분말 내뿜으십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owder-puffpay пуховка (powder puff, powderpuff, puff). (various references) pudervippa (powder puff, puff). (various references) nùi bông thoa phấn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-f-o-p-p-r-u-w" | |
-3 letters: pouffed. | |
-4 letters: doffer, duffer, fopped, poufed, pouffe, poured, powder, puffed, puffer, rouped, ruffed. | |
-5 letters: doper, dower, drupe, duper, offed, offer, pedro, perdu, pored, pouff, power, proud, prude, roped, rowed, ruffe, upped, upper, uredo. | |
| 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)50 6F 77 64 65 72 2D 70 75 66 66 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110111 01100100 01100101 01110010 00101101 01110000 01110101 01100110 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o w d e r - p u f f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0077 0064 0065 0072 002D 0070 0075 0066 0066 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081897071841582877272 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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