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Definition: RUMMAGING |
RUMMAGINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Rummage |
Date "RUMMAGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The seamen at their landing observed my canoe, and rummaging it all over, easily conjectured that the owner could not be far off. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "RUMMAGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.33% of the time. "RUMMAGING" is used about 75 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 97.33% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 75 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "RUMMAGING": rummaging around. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "RUMMAGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | wühlerei (agitation, burrowing, digging, rooting, slogging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | tramestio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 漁り (fishing, rummaging search, search), "れと同じ (complaining about various things, confusion, easily, effortlessly, game of make-believe, huddle, in this way, jarring sound, jumble, like this, mess, misspelling of "ko n ba n ha", misspelling of "kon ni chi ha", mix, rummaging sound, small and round thing rolling, so, something done together, something that changes frequently, such, suddenly, the same as this, trouble, utterly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "そ"そ (jarring sound, rummaging sound), あさり (fishing, rummaging search, search, short-necked clam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ummagingray scotocitor (scrounger). (various references) ubairt (rummaging amoung heavy articles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "RUMMAGING": scrummaging. (additional references) | |
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"RUMMAGING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rammaging, reimagine, remaging, rumaging, Rummenigge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "RUMMAGING" (pronounced ru"mijing) |
| 5 | -m i j i ng | damaging, imaging. |
| 4 | -i j i ng | acknowledging, averaging, disparaging, encouraging, foraging, hemorrhaging, leveraging, messaging, micromanaging, mismanaging, mortgaging, packaging, pillaging, presaging, ravaging, repackaging, salvaging, savaging. |
| 3 | -j i ng | aging, alleging, arbitraging, arranging, avenging, besieging, bridging, bulging, challenging, changing, charging, converging, cringing, discharging, discouraging, disengaging, dislodging, diverging, divulging, dodging, dredging, edging, emerging, engaging, enlarging, enraging, exchanging, fledging, forging, fudging, gauging, gouging, grudging, hedging, indulging, infringing, judging, lodging, lounging, lunging, managing, merging, mischarging, nudging, obliging, outraging, overcharging, paging, pledging, plunging, purging, raging, rampaging, ranging, rearranging, recharging, resurging, scavenging, scrounging, shortchanging, splurging, staging, surging, trudging, unchanging, urging, verging, waging. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-m-m-n-r-u" | |
-2 letters: arguing, gamming, gauming, gumming, ramming. | |
-3 letters: arming, gaming, granum, magnum, margin, muggar, muring, raging, rumina, urging. | |
-4 letters: aging, gamin, garni, grain, gumma, imaum, inarm, ruing, unarm, unrig. | |
-5 letters: agin, airn, amin, amir, arum, gain, gang, gaum, gaun, gaur, giga, girn, gnar, gram, gran, grig, grim, grin, grum, guan, guar, imam, magi, maim, main, mair. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-m-m-n-r-u" | |
+2 letters: scrummaging. | |
+5 letters: megasporangium. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 55 4D 4D 41 47 49 4E 47 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01010101 01001101 01001101 01000001 01000111 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R U M M A G I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0055 004D 004D 0041 0047 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)525547473541434841 |
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