PHOOKA

  

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PHOOKA

Specialty Definition: PHOOKA

DomainDefinition

Literature

Phooka or ~~~Pooka.
Pooka. A spirit of most malignant disposition, who hurries people to their destruction. He sometimes comes in the form of an eagle, and sometimes in that of a horse, like the Scotch kelpie (q.v.). (Irish superstition.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PHOOKA

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

phooka

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PHOOKA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-k-o-o-p"

-1 letter: hooka, pooka.

-2 letters: hook, hoop, kaph, koph, opah, pooh.

-3 letters: hao, hap, hop, koa, kop, oak, oho, oka, ooh, pah, poh.

-4 letters: ah, ha, ho, ka, oh, op, pa.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-k-o-o-p"
 

+2 letters: chapbook, reaphook.

 

+3 letters: chapbooks, photomask, reaphooks.

 

+4 letters: photomasks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PHOOKA


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

50 48 4F 4F 4B 41

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)

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

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

01010000 01001000 01001111 01001111 01001011 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#72 &#79 &#79 &#75 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0048 004F 004F 004B 0041

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

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

504249494535

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INDEX

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


  

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