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Definitions: Shoofly |
ShooflyNoun1. (informal) an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen. 2. A child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Shoofly |
| English words defined with "shoofly": shoofly pie. (references) |
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 | Shoofly Rock alignmentsArcheologyLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: W. Meyer. |  | Road sign identifying the village of Shoofly, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Single tobacco flower. The tobacco plant is "topped" before it blooms in the field, with exception of a few plants which are saved out for seed. Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Putting in the tobacco after the morning work. Shoofly, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Son of tenant farmer hanging up strung tobacco inside the barn. Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tobacco field in early morning where white sharecropper and wage laborer are priming tobacco. Shoofly, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | White sharecropper priming tobacco early in the morning. Shoofly, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Titus Oakley's daughter helping in the grading and tying of tobacco in their bedroom as it had gotten too cold to work in the strip house. She is eight years old and is "taking off" the tobacco. Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Titus Oakley family stripping, tying and grading tobacco in their bedroom. Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina. See subregional notes. November 16, 1939. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | White tenant farm woman in doorway of house. She is Mrs. Arrington, mother-in-law of Taylor, a white sharecropper. Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina. See subregional notes (Odum) November 16, 1939. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Expression using "shoofly": shoofly pie. 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. |
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shoofly pie | 18 |
shoofly | 16 |
pie recipe shoofly | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "shoofly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | страничен път (by-lane, byway, service road, slip road), временен път, детско столче люлка. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ooflyshay | ||||
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"Shoofly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schoolly, schooool, Sheeffry, shoogly, shuffly, Swoofle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shoofly" (pronounced shuw"flī') |
| 3 | -f l ī' | botfly, butterfly, firefly, gadfly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-h-l-o-o-s-y" | |
-1 letter: floosy. | |
-2 letters: fools, hoofs, hooly, loofs, shool. | |
-3 letters: fool, foys, hols, holy, hoof, hoys, loof, loos, oohs, shoo, solo. | |
-4 letters: fly, foh, foy, hoy, loo, oho, ohs, ooh, shy, sly, sol, soy. | |
-5 letters: ho, lo, of, oh, os, oy, sh, so, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-h-l-o-o-s-y" | |
+2 letters: foolishly. | |
+3 letters: hydrofoils. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 68 6F 6F 66 6C 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01100110 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S h o o f l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0068 006F 006F 0066 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53748181727891 |
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