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Date "REEKIE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Reekie (Auld). Chambers says: "An old patriarchal laird (Durham of Largo) was in the habit of regulating the time of evening worship by the appearance of the smoke of Edinburgh. ... When it increased in density, in consequence of the good folk preparing supper, he would ... say, `It is time noo, bairns, to tak the buiks and gang to our beds, for yonder's auld Reekie, I see, putting on her night-cap."' "Yonder is auld Reekie. You may see the smoke hover over her at twenty miles' distance."- Sir W. Scott: The Abbot, xvii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: REEKIE |
| Specialty definitions using "REEKIE": Old Reeky. (references) |
| "REEKIE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "REEKIE" is used about 13 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% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "REEKIE" 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 |
| Reekie | Last name | 200 | 39,480 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
auld reekie | 4 |
reekie | 3 |
joe reekie | 3 |
auld lodge reekie | 3 |
jennifer reekie | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "REEKIE": reekier, reekiest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-k-r" | |
-1 letter: eerie. | |
-2 letters: keir, kier, reek. | |
-3 letters: eke, ere, ire, irk, kir, ree, rei. | |
-4 letters: er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-k-r" | |
+1 letter: geekier, reekier. | |
+2 letters: cheekier, deerlike, reedlike, reekiest, sleekier, treelike. | |
+3 letters: innkeeper, kieserite, pickeered, reseeking. | |
+4 letters: friezelike, icebreaker, innkeepers, kerchiefed, kerchieves, kieserites, tiebreaker, timekeeper. | |
+5 letters: bewhiskered, freethinker, greenockite, icebreakers, jerkinesses, leatherlike, leukotriene, makereadies, neckerchief, perkinesses, pieceworker, pokeberries, snickersnee, tiebreakers, timekeepers, triweeklies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 45 4B 49 45 |
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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)01010010 01000101 01000101 01001011 01001001 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E E K I E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0045 004B 0049 0045 |
| 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)523939454339 |
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