MORPION

  

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MORPION

Definition: MORPION

MORPION

Noun

1. A louse.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Morpion \Mor"pi*on\, noun. [French expression, from mordre to bite Latin pedis louse.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: MORPION

Non-English Usage: "MORPION" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (naughty boy, pickle).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MORPION

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

morpion

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

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Rhyming with "MORPION"

Words rhyming with "MORPION" (pronounced 'Mor"pi*on'): Abacination, Abaction, Abaddon, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Ablution, Abluvion, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Aboon, Abortion, Abrasion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstersion, Abstraction, Abstrusion, Absumption, Abusion, Abutilon, Accension, Accentuation, Acceptation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MORPION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-m-n-o-o-p-r"

-1 letter: morion.

-2 letters: minor, moron, nomoi, orpin, poori, porno, primo, prion, promo.

-3 letters: inro, iron, mono, moon, moor, morn, noir, nori, norm, pion, pirn, poon, poor, porn, prim, prom, romp, room.

-4 letters: imp, ion, mir, mon, moo, mop, mor, nim, nip, nom, noo, nor, pin, poi, pom, pro, rim, rin, rip, rom.

-5 letters: in, mi, mo.

 Words containing the letters "i-m-n-o-o-p-r"
 

+2 letters: pogroming, promoting, promotion.

 

+3 letters: comparison, comporting, microphone, monocarpic, promotions, pronominal, spoonerism.

 

+4 letters: apomorphine, carpogonium, comparisons, compression, endomorphic, hemoprotein, homeporting, importation, mesonephroi, microphones, microphonic, monitorship, monographic, monomorphic, monopolizer, morphogenic, mucoprotein, nomographic, opportunism, paronomasia, phonogramic, positronium, postforming, premonition, premonitory, promotional, prothrombin, recomposing, spoonerisms, sporogonium, tropomyosin.

 

+5 letters: actinomorphy, anisotropism, apomorphines, compressions, compromising, compurgation, contemporize, enantiomorph, endomorphies, endomorphism, gossipmonger, hemoproteins, impersonator, importations, lampooneries, metropolitan, microphonics, mispronounce, monitorships, monodisperse, monographing, monomorphism, monopolizers, mothproofing, mucoproteins, nomographies, operationism, opportunisms, outpromising, paronomasias, paronomastic, parsimonious, phonogrammic, polychroming, positroniums, postromantic, preformation, premonitions, primogenitor, proclamation, promontories, promulgation, pronominally, prothalamion, prothrombins, reimposition, somatotropin, tropomyosins.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MORPION


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

4D 4F 52 50 49 4F 4E

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)

01001101 01001111 01010010 01010000 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#82 &#80 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 0052 0050 0049 004F 004E

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

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

47495250434948

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INDEX

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


  

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