Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Puckishly

Definition: Puckishly

Puckishly

Adverb

1. In an appealing but bold manner; "she asked him impishly to come in".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Puckishly

Synonym: impishly (adv). (additional references)

Top     

Usage Frequency: Puckishly

"Puckishly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Puckishly" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%2245,945

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

Top     

Anagrams: Puckishly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-i-k-l-p-s-u-y"

-2 letters: cushily, huskily, puckish, pushily, sylphic.

-3 letters: phylic, physic, piculs, plisky, plucks, plucky, plushy, scyphi, sickly, sluicy.

-4 letters: chips, clips, cuish, cushy, hicks, hilus, hucks, hulks, hulky, husky, licks, lucks, lucky, picks, picky, picul, pilus, pluck, plush, psych, pucks, pulik, pulis, pushy, schul, sculk, sculp, shily, shuck, silky, slick, spick, spicy, spiky, sulci, sulky.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Puckishly


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 75 63 6B 69 73 68 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    ..-    -.-.    -.-    ..    ...    ....    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110101 01100011 01101011 01101001 01110011 01101000 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#117 &#99 &#107 &#105 &#115 &#104 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0075 0063 006B 0069 0073 0068 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508769777585747891

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.