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| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | BURNING SHAME. A lighted candle stuck into the parts of a woman, certainly not intended by nature for a candlestick. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disrepute | Crying shame, burning shame; scandalum magnatum, badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon; bend sinister, bar sinister; champain, point champain; byword of reproach; Ichabod. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "BURNING SHAME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | жгучий стыд. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-h-i-m-n-n-r-s-u" | |
-3 letters: ambushing, beshaming, geraniums, measuring, numbering, rhumbaing, submarine, surnaming, unbearing, unmeshing, unseaming. | |
-4 letters: aginners, ambusher, aneurins, aneurism, banisher, bearhugs, bearings, bemusing, benaming, breaming, brushing, burnings, earnings, embruing, engrains, ensuring, gambiers, geranium, grannies, guanines, hamburgs, harmines, hearings, hearsing, humanise, inhumane, inhumers, inurbane, manuring, meanings, misbegan, misbegun, reinsman, renaming, resuming, rheniums, rumbaing, sabering, sanguine, shearing. | |
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