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Definition: Spindly |
SpindlyAdjective1. Long and lean. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spindly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
Synonym: SpindlySynonym: lank (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spindly |
| English words defined with "spindly": common heath ♦ Epacris impressa ♦ leggy ♦ tall-growing. (references) |
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| "Arachnophobia 6" by Kd Kelly Commentary: "A big spindly legged green alien-looking spider who has *gulp* since disappeared..." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Spindly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 98.78% of the time. "Spindly" is used about 82 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 98.78% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "spindly": spindly-legged. | |
| 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 |
spindly | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spindly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i hollë (dainty, delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, keen, liny, meager, meagre, nice, paper, papery, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, politic, sleazy, slender, slim, small, spidery, spindling, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, Twiggy, washy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тънък дълъг, вретеновиден (fusiform). (various references) | |
Czech | vytáhlý (lanky). (various references) | |
Farsi | دوک وار. (various references) | |
German | spindeldürr (thin as a rake). (various references) | |
Greek | ψιλόλιγνοσ (lank). (various references) | |
Hebrew | דק (delicate, fine, flimsy, lean, slender, slight, slim, thin), צנום (lean, scraggy, skinny, spare, thin). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyurga (gangling, gaunt, lanky, lathy, overgrown, slab-muscled, slab-sided, spindling). (various references) | |
Italian | lungo e sottile, affusolato (streamlined, tapered, tapering). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | indlyspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | espigado, alto e magro (lathy, slabsided). (various references) | |
Russian | длинный и тонкий. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dug i tanak. (various references) | |
Spanish | zanquivano (spindleshanks), largo y delgado. (various references) | |
Swedish | skranglig (cranky, lanky, ramshackle, rickety, scraggy). (various references) | |
Turkish | leylek gibi (spindling, tall and thin), cılız (fatless, feeble, of poor physique, puny, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, sickly, skinny, spindling, undersized, weak), çok zayıf ve uzun (spindling), çöp gibi (angular, skinnny, spindling, stalky), çırpı gibi (spindling). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кволий (ailing, bedrid, crocky, dicky, feeble, fey, languid, nerveless, powerless, puny, ramshackle, silly, washy, weakly), веретеноподібний (fusiform). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người thon thon (spindling), người mảnh khảnh (spindling), người dong dỏng (spindling). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Spindly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spendy, spindal, spindely. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-l-n-p-s-y" | |
-2 letters: idyls, lindy, lysin, pyins, spiny. | |
-3 letters: dins, dips, idly, idyl, inly, lids, lins, liny, lips, lisp, nils, nips, pily, pins, piny, pyin, sild, slid, slip, snip, spin, syli, yids, yins, yips. | |
-4 letters: din, dip, dis, ids, ins, lid, lin, lip, lis, nil, nip, pin, pis, ply, psi, sin, sip, sly, spy, syn, yid. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-l-n-p-s-y" | |
+2 letters: diphenyls, insipidly. | |
+3 letters: amplidynes, displaying, nymphalids, splendidly. | |
+4 letters: polyandries, spondylitis, staphylinid. | |
+5 letters: depressingly, despairingly, diaphanously, disciplinary, discrepantly, indisputably, podophyllins, redisplaying, staphylinids. | |
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