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Definition: Baldrick |
BaldrickNoun1. A wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "baldrick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Labor | Leather or stuff lace carried across the back and used for doing some works more safely. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Intelligent or not, Baldrick is always one for inventing "cunning plans", which are generally ridiculed by Blackadder, who nevertheless ends up using them. So much is the character associated with the phrase, "I have a cunning plan," that for example there is a landmine detection device that is so cunning that it is has been dubbed the Baldrick. (I heard about this on the radio in someplace like Cambodia or Afghanistan -- does anyone have a particular reference to it?)
Other traits shared by all Baldricks (except possibly the first one) are sheer disgustingness and an obsession with turnips.
Baldrick isn't given any sort of first name until the third series, when he speculates that it might be "Sod Off", since his childhood friends would say "Sod Off Baldrick". A diplomatic Blackadder opts to record him as "S. Baldrick" and come the next series, the credits read: Private S. Baldrick.
In the Blackadder pilot episode Baldrick was played by Philip Fox.
An indication of their relationship, from Blackadder II:
...See also: BaldricKATE The word is that your servant is the worst servant in London.
BLACKADDER Mmmmm. That's true. Baldrick, you're fired. Be out of the house in ten minutes.
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BLACKADDER Sorry, Baldrick. Any reason you're still here?
BALDRICK I've got nowhere to go, my lord.
BLACKADDER Oh, surely you'll be allowed to starve to death in one of the royal parks?
BALDRICK I've been in your service since I was two and a half, my lord.
BLACKADDER Well, that must be why I'm so utterly sick of the sight of you.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Baldrick."
Synonym: BaldrickSynonym: baldric (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Baldrick |
| Specialty definitions using "baldrick": King of the Teign. (references) |
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Screenplays | Name Baldrick stop. (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) | |
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| "Baldrick" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Baldrick" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
baldrick st | 11 |
baldrick | 3 |
baldrick s | 2 |
baldrick thomas | 2 |
baldrick shaving st | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "baldrick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | skulderremme, skulderbælte, læderremme. (various references) | |
Dutch | schouderband. (various references) | |
Finnish | turvahihnat. (various references) | |
French | baudrier. (various references) | |
German | Lederriemenschutz, Degengehänge. (various references) | |
Greek | ζώνη (area, band, belt, cincture, cordon, girdle, ribbed band, ribbing, safety belt, sash, seat belt, shingles, truss, waistband, zone). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aldrickbay.(various references) | |
Spanish | guarnición de cuero. (various references) | |
Swedish | skyddssele, skulderrem. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "baldrick": baldricks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-i-k-l-r" | |
-1 letter: baldric. | |
-2 letters: bardic, bridal, ribald. | |
-3 letters: acrid, alcid, baric, black, braid, brail, brick, caird, daric, drail, kibla, laird, liard, libra, lidar, rabic, rabid. | |
-4 letters: abri, acid, arid, aril, back, bail, bald, balk, bard, bark, bilk, bird, birk, birl, brad, cadi, caid, calk, carb, card, cark, carl, clad, crab, crib, darb, dark, dial, dick, dirk, dirl, drab, drib, ilka, kadi, kail, kbar, lack, laic, laid, lair, lard, lari, lark, liar, lick, lira, rack, raid, rail, raki, rial, rick. | |
-5 letters: aid, ail, air, alb, arb, arc, ark, bad, bal, bar, bid, bra, cab, cad, car, dab, dak, dal, dib, ick, ilk, irk, kab, kid, kir, lab, lac, lad, lar, lib, lid, rad, ria, rib, rid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-i-k-l-r" | |
+1 letter: baldricks, blackbird. | |
+2 letters: backslider, blackbirds. | |
+3 letters: backsliders, blackbirded, blackbirder. | |
+4 letters: blackbirders, blackbirding, roadblocking. | |
+5 letters: blackguarding, blackguardism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6C 64 72 69 63 6B |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in 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)01000010 01100001 01101100 01100100 01110010 01101001 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l d r i c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 0064 0072 0069 0063 006B |
| 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)3667787084756977 |
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