HOTCOCKLES

  

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HOTCOCKLES

Definition: HOTCOCKLES

HOTCOCKLES

Noun

1. A childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him or his hand placed behind him.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Hotcockles \Hot"coc`kles\, noun. [Hot cockle, cockle being perhaps corrupt. from knuckle. Compare to French main chaude (literally, hot hand) hotcockles.]. (references)

 

Anagrams: HOTCOCKLES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-k-l-o-o-s-t"

-2 letters: hooklets.

-3 letters: cloches, clothes, cockles, cooches, coolest, coolths, hooklet, lockets, ocelots, schlock.

-4 letters: checks, chocks, chokes, cholos, chooks, choose, cloche, clocks, cloots, closet, clothe, cloths, cockle, cohost, coolth, helots, hostel, hotels, ketols, locket, locoes, ocelot, school, scotch, shlock, sketch, socket, soothe, tholes, tholos.

-5 letters: celts, check, chest, chock, choke, cholo, chook, chose, clock, cloot.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-h-k-l-o-o-s-t"
 

+2 letters: electroshock.

 

+3 letters: electroshocks.

 

+5 letters: cholecystokinin.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HOTCOCKLES


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

48 4F 54 43 4F 43 4B 4C 45 53

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)

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

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

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

01001000 01001111 01010100 01000011 01001111 01000011 01001011 01001100 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#79 &#84 &#67 &#79 &#67 &#75 &#76 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 004F 0054 0043 004F 0043 004B 004C 0045 0053

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

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

42495437493745463953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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