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    first time one's nearly knocked me down for the count" but acknowledging that Word's innovations were the first that caused the reviewer to consider abandoning...
    93 KB (8,383 words) - 10:45, 26 November 2024
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    In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds...
    59 KB (5,833 words) - 21:35, 25 November 2024
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    an intuitive grasp of what a word is, there is no consensus among linguists on its definition and numerous attempts to find specific criteria of the...
    30 KB (3,878 words) - 07:12, 10 November 2024
  • The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of a word and of length. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots...
    36 KB (3,233 words) - 04:46, 12 October 2024
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    A one-letter word is a word composed of a single letter. The application of this apparently simple definition is complex, due to the difficulty of defining...
    75 KB (7,733 words) - 02:00, 11 November 2024
  • Eminem used the word in his song "Almost Famous" off the album Recovery. In May 2023, it was found that including this word in one's Steam profile would...
    9 KB (827 words) - 23:59, 9 October 2024
  • was inserted in one drive, and the system booted up. The data diskette was then put in the second drive. The operating system and the word processing program...
    21 KB (2,644 words) - 12:44, 22 September 2024
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    -ussy (redirect from Bussy (word))
    derived from the word pussy used to create novel derived terms, typically with the implication of resembling the female genitalia in some way. Neologisms...
    7 KB (619 words) - 02:36, 27 November 2024
  • Wordle (redirect from Wordle (word game))
    a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback...
    56 KB (5,386 words) - 17:29, 21 November 2024
  • average, each word in the list has 15.38 senses. The sense count does not include the use of terms in phrasal verbs such as "put out" (as in "inconvenienced")...
    16 KB (858 words) - 14:09, 22 October 2024
  • but he puts the word nosferatu in a typeface which indicates it to be a language other than German. Schmidt's description is unambiguous in identifying...
    21 KB (2,528 words) - 15:08, 27 October 2024
  • The longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration...
    83 KB (7,591 words) - 23:43, 23 November 2024
  • & Katie' & 'The A Word' deal across Europe". TBI Vision. Johnson, Niall (23 March 2016). "BBC One's autistic family drama The A Word opens with 4.7m"....
    26 KB (1,259 words) - 13:18, 10 November 2024
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    the full phrase appeared in the Nebraska State Journal. Since both "off one's trolley" and "off one's rocker" became popular in the late 1890s about the...
    43 KB (2,021 words) - 10:23, 19 November 2024
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    Lewis Carroll. A word ladder puzzle begins with two words, and to solve the puzzle one must find a chain of other words to link the two, in which two adjacent...
    7 KB (733 words) - 14:33, 9 July 2024
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    Eating crow (redirect from To eat crow)
    idioms having to do with eating and being proven incorrect, such as to "eat dirt", to "eat one’s hat" (or shoe), or to put one's foot in their mouth; all...
    10 KB (1,276 words) - 04:57, 17 November 2024
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    A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that consists of the letters of words placed in a grid, which usually...
    7 KB (1,012 words) - 04:23, 19 October 2024
  • An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. Such words usually have...
    9 KB (563 words) - 07:26, 16 August 2024
  • The meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used. American...
    48 KB (4,964 words) - 04:45, 23 November 2024
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    their example to allure others to God." The parable is the source of the proverb "to hide one's light under a bushel", the use of the word "bushel", an...
    7 KB (1,032 words) - 17:16, 20 June 2024
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