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Date "SKEGGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Skeggs Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia Skeggs. A pretender to gentility who boasts of her aristocratic connections, but is atrociously vulgar, and complains of being "all of a muck of sweat." (Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "SKEGGS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SKEGGS" is used about 5 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) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SKEGGS": Lyndon-skeggs. | |
| 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 |
point skeggs | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SKEGGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | Skeggs-Leonards'haemodia lysator (Skeggs-Leonards haemodialysator). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | hémodialyseur de Skeggs-Leonards (Skeggs-Leonards haemodialysator). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Skeggs-Leonards Hämodialysator (Skeggs-Leonards haemodialysator). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eggsskay hemodializador de Skeggs-Leonards (Skeggs-Leonards haemodialysator). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-k-s-s" | |
-1 letter: skegs. | |
-2 letters: eggs, kegs, segs, skeg. | |
-3 letters: egg, ess, keg, seg. | |
-4 letters: es. | |
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