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Definition: Blowgun |
BlowgunNoun1. A tube through which darts can be shot by blowing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blowgun" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A blowgun is a simple weapon consisting of a small tube for firing light projectiles, or darts. The wielder blows into one end, forcing the dart out the other.Often for increased effectiveness, the dart is tipped with a poison.
Many cultures have used this weapon, but various indigenous rain forest tribes in South America and South East Asia are the best known wielders.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blowgun."
Synonyms: BlowgunSynonyms: blow tube (n), blowpipe (n), blowtube (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Blowgun |
| English words defined with "blowgun": Sumpitan. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blowgun": Tucumo. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We just knocked out a couger with a K-Mart blowgun! (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys; writing credit: Jeff Stockwell) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Blowgun" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blowgun" 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 (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
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 |
blowgun | 141 |
blowgun darts | 19 |
make blowgun | 17 |
blowgun hunting | 10 |
blowgun accessory | 5 |
blowgun joe | 4 |
blowgun paintball | 4 |
blowgun homemade | 3 |
blowgun avenger | 2 |
blowgun darts make | 2 |
making a blowgun | 2 |
blowgun poison | 2 |
blowgun for sale | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blowgun"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Farsi | پفک (Puff), تفنگ بادی . (various references) | |
German | blasrohr (blast pipe, blowpipe). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyílkilövő cső, levegőszelep, légpuska (air gun, air rifle), légfúvóka, fúvócső (blow-pipe). (various references) | |
Italian | cerbottana (peashooter). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 吹き矢 (blowpipe, dart). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふきや (blowpipe, dart). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owgunblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | zarabatana (blowpipe). (various references) | |
Russian | духовой ружье. (various references) | |
Spanish | pistola (pistol, gun, handgun), cerbatana (blowpipe, blowtube, peashooter). (various references) | |
Swedish | blåsrör (blowpipe, blow-pipe). (various references) | |
Turkish | hava tabancası (air gun), üfleyerek ok atılan boru (blowpipe). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ống xì đồng cái sơn xì. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blowgun": blowguns. (additional references) | |
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"Blowgun" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balogun, blowgut, boltgun. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-l-n-o-u-w" | |
-2 letters: blown, gluon. | |
-3 letters: blow, bong, bowl, bung, glob, glow, gown, long, lown, lung. | |
-4 letters: bog, bow, bug, bun, gnu, gob, gul, gun, lob, log, low, lug, nob, nog, now, nub, owl, own, wog, won. | |
-5 letters: bo, go, lo, no, nu, on, ow, un, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-l-n-o-u-w" | |
+1 letter: blowguns, bungalow. | |
+2 letters: bungalows. | |
+3 letters: outbawling. | |
+4 letters: belowground, furbelowing, outbrawling. | |
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