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Definition: NUGIFY |
NUGIFYTransitive verb1. To render trifling or futile; to make silly. |
Etymology: Nugify \Nu"gi*fy\, transitive verb. [Latin expression nuggae trifles -fy.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Words rhyming with "NUGIFY" (pronounced 'Nu"gi*fy'): Acidify, Adsignify, Aerify, Alacrify, Angelify, Anglicify, Anglify, Arefy, Argufy, Balmify, Basify, Beatify, Bonify, Brutify, Candify, Capacify, Carnify, Celestify, Certify, Chondrify, Chylify, Chymify, Classify, Cockneyfy, Codify, Consignify, Corporify, Correctify, Countrify, Crucify, Cuffy, Daintify, Damnify, Dandify, Decalcify, Deify, Demideify, Denitrify, Devitrify, Dezincify, Diabolify, Dignify, Disacidify, Disdeify, Disedify, Disglorify, Disguisedfy, Disqualify, Dissatisfy, Dissyllabify. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-n-u-y" | |
-1 letter: fungi, unify. | |
-3 letters: fig, fin, fug, fun, gin, gnu, gun, guy, yin. | |
-4 letters: if, in, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-n-u-y" | |
+2 letters: fumingly, unifying. | |
+3 letters: argufying, flurrying, gainfully, outflying, purifying, tumefying, uglifying. | |
+4 letters: brutifying, crucifying, dulcifying, fumblingly, justifying, liquefying, liquifying, mummifying, nullifying, putrefying, qualifying, reunifying, russifying, stupefying, unedifying, unfadingly. | |
+5 letters: beautifying, bodysurfing, confusingly, copurifying, emulsifying, fatiguingly, flauntingly, fructifying, fungibility, humidifying, quantifying, repurifying, stultifying, unfailingly, unfeelingly, unfeignedly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 55 47 49 46 59 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. ..- --. .. ..-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01010101 01000111 01001001 01000110 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N U G I F Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0055 0047 0049 0046 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)485541434059 |
| 1. Definition 2. Rhymes 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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