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Voguish

Definitions: Voguish

Voguish

Adjective

1. Elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut".

2. In accord with the latest fad; "trendy ideas"; "trendy clothes"; "voguish terminology".

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

Synonyms: Voguish

Synonyms: chic (adj), smart (adj), trendy (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Voguish

English words defined with "voguish": chicsmart. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Voguish

"Voguish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Voguish" 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translations: Voguish

Language Translations for "voguish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

modisch (dressy, fashionable, modish, modishly, new-fashioned, sporty, stylish, stylishly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oguishvay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Voguish

Derivations

Words beginning with "voguish": voguishness, voguishnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Voguish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Goghish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Voguish

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-h-i-o-s-u-v"

-2 letters: sough, vughs.

-3 letters: ghis, gosh, gush, guvs, hogs, hugs, shiv, shog, sigh, sugh, ughs, vigs, vugh, vugs.

-4 letters: ghi, gos, guv, his, hog, hug, ohs, sou, ugh, vig, vis, vug.

-5 letters: go, hi, ho, is, oh, os, sh, si, so, uh, us.

 Words containing the letters "g-h-i-o-s-u-v"
 

+4 letters: voguishness, vouchsafing.

 

+5 letters: overhuntings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Voguish


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

56 6F 67 75 69 73 68

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

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

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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

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

01010110 01101111 01100111 01110101 01101001 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#111 &#103 &#117 &#105 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 006F 0067 0075 0069 0073 0068

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

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

56817387758574

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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