LA-DE-DA

  

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LA-DE-DA

Specialty Definition: LA-DE-DA

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Literature

La-de-da A yea-nay sort of a fellow, with no backbone. "Da," in French, means both oui and nenni, as Oui-da (ay marry), Nenni-da (no forsooth).
"I wish that French brother of his, the Parisian la-de-da, was more like him, more of an American."- A. G. Gunter: Baron Montez, book iii. 8. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Expression: LA-DE-DA

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "LA-DE-DA": la-de-da-accent.

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

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Anagrams: LA-DE-DA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: daedal.

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-l"

-1 letter: addle, dedal, laded.

-2 letters: alae, dada, dale, dead, deal, lade, lead.

-3 letters: aal, add, ala, ale, dad, dal, del, eld, lad, lea, led.

-4 letters: aa, ad, ae, al, de, ed, el, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-l"
 

+1 letter: addable, alidade, decadal.

 

+2 letters: adulated, alidades, baldhead, deadfall, dealated, headland, sandaled.

 

+3 letters: adenoidal, applauded, astraddle, baldheads, deadfalls, dreamland, escaladed, garlanded, headlands, lapidated, palisaded, placarded, saddlebag, sandalled, scandaled, validated.

 

+4 letters: acidulated, addlepated, balderdash, baldheaded, bandleader, calendared, defalcated, degradable, demandable, devaluated, dilapidate, dreamlands, hebdomadal, landladies, landscaped, maladapted, manhandled, meadowland, packsaddle, paddleball, paddleboat, panhandled, paradiddle, railroaded, saddlebags, scandalled, taradiddle, vandalised, vandalized.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LA-DE-DA


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

4C 41 2D 44 45 2D 44 41

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

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

01001100 01000001 00101101 01000100 01000101 00101101 01000100 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#45 &#68 &#69 &#45 &#68 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 002D 0044 0045 002D 0044 0041

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

4635153839153835

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INDEX

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


  

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