BOZOTIC

  

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BOZOTIC

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Bozotic /boh-zoh'tik/ or /boh-zo'tik/ adj. [from the name of a TV clown even more losing than Ronald McDonald] Resembling or having the quality of a bozo; that is, clownish, ludicrously wrong, unintentionally humorous. Compare wonky, demented. Note that the noun `bozo' occurs in slang, but the mainstream adjectival form would be `bozo-like' or (in New England) `bozoish'. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: BOZOTIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-i-o-o-t-z"

-3 letters: boot, bozo, coot, obit, otic, zoic.

-4 letters: bio, bit, biz, boo, bot, cob, coo, cot, coz, obi, oot, tic, too, zit, zoo.

-5 letters: bi, bo, it, ti, to.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BOZOTIC


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

42 4F 5A 4F 54 49 43

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)

01000010 01001111 01011010 01001111 01010100 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#79 &#90 &#79 &#84 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004F 005A 004F 0054 0049 0043

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

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

36496049544337

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1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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