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Definition: Parky |
ParkyAdjective1. Pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ParkySynonyms: crisp (adj), frosty (adj), nipping (adj), nippy (adj), snappy (adj). (additional references) |
| "Parky" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Parky" is used about 9 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "parky": parky-starn. | |
| 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 |
parky | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "parky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | I Ftohtë (algid, aloof, bleak, bloodless, brumous, chilly, cold, cold-livered, cool, cool blooded, crimpy, distant, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, insensitive, offish, sexless, stilted, stolid, stony, winterly, wintry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Хаплив, Студен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kühl (businesslike, chill, chilly, cold, cool, distant, dry, frigid, level, smooth, standoffish, unemotional, unemotionally, unenthusiastic), Frisch (adroit, agile, alert, bright, brisk, cheery, chill, chilly, cool, crisp, dewy, fresh, freshly, green, keen, lively, new, newly, newly-laid, nippy, recent, sweet, term applied to wines containing adequate but not excess acidity, undressed, wet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Hûvös (chill, chilly, coldish, cool, unresponsive), hűvös (chill, chilly, cold, cool, frosty, nick, stiff, unresponsive), csípős (acerbic, acrimonious, caustic, crispy, eager, hot, keen, nettled, nippy, poignant, prickly, sarky, scathing, shrewd, snappish, tart, waspy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Freddino (coolish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arkypay Um Tanto Fresco, Frio (bleak, chill, chilly, clammy, cold, cold-hearted, coldlivered, coldness, cool, devil may care, dispassionate, edge, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frost, icerink, ill, impaste, lifeless, nipping, non-com, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, pre-cured tread, repulsive, reserved, soulless, tack, tepid, unresponsive, unsympathetic, winterly, wintry), Doença De Parkinson, Cortante (acerbic, biting, clear-sighted, clipping, cutter, cutting, cutting edge, incisive, jackbit insert, keen, nipping, nippy, sharp, slashing, trenchant). (various references) Pãtrunzãtor (acute, astute, clear, clear-sighted, comprehensive, deep, deeply, discerning, harsh, high pitched, in-going, keen, loud, penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, quick, rich, sagacious, screaming, searching, sharp, shrewd, shrill, strident, subtle, thrilling, touching), Friguros (bleak, chill, chilly, cold), Cam Rece. (various references) Холодный. (various references) rezak (biting). (various references) Frío (bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cool, distant, frigid, frosted, frosting, frosty, sharp, spent, stiff, uncommunicative). (various references) Parkvakt (park keeper), Kylig (chill, chilly, coldish, cool, frigid, frosty, glacial, wintry). (various references) Soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frostiness, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stiff, stony, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, wintry). (various references) Пронизливий, Холодний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "parky": sparky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: kyar, park, pray. | |
-2 letters: ark, kay, par, pay, pry, pya, rap, ray, rya, yak, yap, yar. | |
-3 letters: ar, ay, ka, pa, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: sparky. | |
+2 letters: parkway, sparkly. | |
+3 letters: kalyptra, parkways, sparkily. | |
+4 letters: kalyptras, karyotype, kymograph, perikarya, playmaker. | |
+5 letters: bankruptcy, karyolymph, karyotyped, karyotypes, karyotypic, kymographs, kymography, perikaryal, perikaryon, playmakers, prankishly, prokaryote, skyscraper. | |
| 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 61 72 6B 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01101011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r k y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 006B 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067847791 |
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