SWAN-UPPING

Definition: SWAN-UPPING

SWAN-UPPING

Noun

1. A yearly expedition on the Thames to take up young swans and mark them, as by Companies of Dyers and Vintners; -- called also swan-hopping.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Swan-upping \Swan"-up`ping\, noun. yearly expedition on the Thames to take up young swans and mark them, as by Companies of Dyers and Vintners; -- called also swan-hopping. [English]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: SWAN-UPPING

English words defined with "SWAN-UPPING": Swan-hopping. (references)

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Usage Frequency: SWAN-UPPING

"SWAN-UPPING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "SWAN-UPPING" 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)	66.67%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SWAN-UPPING

Language		Translations for "SWAN-UPPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		天鹅上升. (various references)

Korean		백조 올림. (various references)

Pig Latin		an-uppingsway

Turkish		thames nehrindeki kuğuların işaretlenmesi. (various references)

Vietnamese		việc đánh dấu hằng năm chim thiên nga trên sông Têm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SWAN-UPPING"

Words rhyming with "SWAN-UPPING" (pronounced 'Swan"-up`ping'): Boottopping, Clodhopping, Countertripping, Understrapping. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SWAN-UPPING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-n-p-p-s-u-w"
	-2 letters: snapping, spawning, swapping, wingspan.
	-3 letters: awnings, guanins, napping, pausing, pawning, pinangs, sapping, snawing, supping, uppings, upswing, wanguns, wapping.
	-4 letters: awning, guanin, inspan, pawing, pignus, pinang, pinnas, pinups, saning, sannup, sawing, spuing, unpins, unsawn, unsnap, upping, wangun, waning, wigans.
	-5 letters: aping, awing, gains, gawps, gnawn, gnaws, guans, nipas, pains, pangs, pawns, pians, pinas, pings, pinna.
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