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Definitions: Meany |
MeanyNoun1. United States labor leader who was the first president of the AFL-CIO (1894-1980). 2. A person of mean disposition. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: MeanySynonyms: meanie (n), unkind person (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Meany |
| English words defined with "Meany": George Meany. (references) |
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Screenplays | You didn't give meany chance at all, did you? (El Dorado; writing credit: Leigh Brackett) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Teeny Weeny Meany (1966) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Doctor holding puppets (Sam susceptible and Meany Measles) used in immunization skits for children.Credit: CDC. |  | President Nixon and George Meany divided by jagged tear in the paper.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Coretta Scott King shaking hands with A. Philip Randolph, surrounded by (left to right) Bayard Rustin, George Meany, Nelson Rockefeller, and others] / Sam Reiss, photographer.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Meany in Miami Beach with our union dues.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Meany" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Meany" is used about 3 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 (proper) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Meany" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Meany | Last name | 1,000 | 17,239 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Meany": George Meany. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
a prayer for owen meany | 67 |
george meany | 19 |
meany owen | 18 |
center george meany | 15 |
meany | 7 |
a prayer for owen meany summary | 7 |
kevin meany | 6 |
hall meany | 6 |
meany owen prayer quote | 5 |
expectation great meany owen prayer vs | 5 |
man meany | 5 |
colm meany | 4 |
meany sullivan wilson | 3 |
meany movie owen prayer | 3 |
meany owen quote | 2 |
meany theater | 2 |
center meany | 2 |
meany owen prayer review | 2 |
center george labor meany study | 2 |
a prayer for owen meany john irving | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Meany" (pronounced mē"nē) |
| 4 | m ē" n ē | Domine. |
| 3 | -ē" n ē | bikini, fettuccine, genie, Larine, linguine, maline, martini, Sweeny, teeny, weeny, zucchini. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: yamen. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-y" | |
-1 letter: amen, mane, many, mean, myna, name, nema, yean. | |
-2 letters: ane, any, aye, mae, man, may, men, nae, nam, nay, yam, yea, yen. | |
-3 letters: ae, am, an, ay, em, en, ma, me, my, na, ne, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-y" | |
+1 letter: baymen, byname, laymen, mangey, meanly, namely, yamens, yeoman. | |
+2 letters: amenity, amnesty, amylene, anymore, anytime, bynames, daysmen, draymen, hymenal, hymenia, nymphae, payment, pygmean, yardmen, yeggman. | |
+3 letters: aeronomy, amenably, amylenes, amylogen, aneurysm, bogeyman, cyclamen, dairymen, dynamite, embaying, empyrean, endogamy, ependyma, everyman, feminacy, ferryman, ganymede, geomancy, handymen, hogmenay, humanely, hymeneal, hymenial, lambency, laywomen, maidenly, mangabey, mannerly, maryjane, medianly, megadyne, menially, mentally, mesnalty, monetary, moneybag, moneyman, mycelian, numeracy, numerary, nymphean, overmany, payments, pygmaean, seamanly, seminary, sunbeamy, sycamine, tallymen, tyramine, xenogamy, yachtmen, yeomanly, yeomanry. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 61 6E 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- . .- -. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100101 01100001 01101110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M e a n y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0065 0061 006E 0079 |
| 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)4771678091 |
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