CHICK-A-BIDDY

  

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CHICK-A-BIDDY

Specialty Definition: CHICK-A-BIDDY

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Chick-a-biddy (A). A child's name for a young chicken, and a mother's word of endearment to her young child. "Biddy" is merely the call of a child, bid-bid-bid-bid to a chicken.
"Do you, sweet Rob? Do you truly, chickabiddy?"-Dickens: Dombey and Son. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

BIDDY, or CHICK-A-BIDDY. A chicken, and figuratively a young wench.
CHICK-A-BIDDY. A chicken, so called to and by little children. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Crosswords: CHICK-A-BIDDY

Specialty definitions using "CHICK-A-BIDDY": BIDDY. (references)

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Anagrams: CHICK-A-BIDDY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-d-d-h-i-i-k-y"

-3 letters: dabchick.

-4 letters: bacchii.

-5 letters: acidic, diacid, dyadic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CHICK-A-BIDDY


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

43 48 49 43 4B 2D 41 2D 42 49 44 44 59

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

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

01000011 01001000 01001001 01000011 01001011 00101101 01000001 00101101 01000010 01001001 01000100 01000100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#72 &#73 &#67 &#75 &#45 &#65 &#45 &#66 &#73 &#68 &#68 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0048 0049 0043 004B 002D 0041 002D 0042 0049 0044 0044 0059

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

37424337451535153643383859

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