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BILLBUG

Definition: BILLBUG

BILLBUG

Noun

1. A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Crosswords: BILLBUG

English words defined with "BILLBUG": Billbeetle. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BILLBUG

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

billbug

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BILLBUG

Derivations

Words beginning with "BILLBUG": billbugs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BILLBUG" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ballbag, Bilba, Bilboa, billbus. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: BILLBUG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-g-i-l-l-u"

-1 letter: bulbil.

-3 letters: bill, blub, bulb, bull, gill, glib, gull, iglu.

-4 letters: bib, big, bub, bug, gib, gul, ill, lib, lug.

-5 letters: bi, li.

 Words containing the letters "b-b-g-i-l-l-u"
 

+1 letter: billbugs.

 

+2 letters: lightbulb.

 

+3 letters: bumblingly, lightbulbs.

 

+4 letters: bullbaiting, landlubbing.

 

+5 letters: bullbaitings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BILLBUG


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

42 49 4C 4C 42 55 47

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)

01000010 01001001 01001100 01001100 01000010 01010101 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#66 &#85 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 004C 004C 0042 0055 0047

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

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

36434646365541

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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