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BICKERSTAFF

Date "BICKERSTAFF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)


Specialty Definition: BICKERSTAFF

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Literature

Bickerstaff (Isaac ). A name assumed by Dean Swift in a satirical pamphlet against Partridge, the almanack-maker. This produced a paper war so diverting that Steele issued the Tatler under the editorial name of "Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., Astrologer (1709). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Commercial Usage: BICKERSTAFF

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Lady of Quality: Being a Most Curious, Hitherto Unknown History, As Related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff but Not Presented to the World of Fashion thro [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Name Usage Frequency: BICKERSTAFF

The following table summarizes the usage of "BICKERSTAFF" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BickerstaffLast name1,0008,858
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BICKERSTAFF

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

bickerstaff

7

bickerstaff heath

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BICKERSTAFF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-f-f-i-k-r-s-t"

-2 letters: backfires, firebacks.

-3 letters: backfire, backfits, backrest, barkiest, brackets, brakiest, fireback, tiebacks, traffics.

-4 letters: affects, ascribe, backers, backfit, backset, baffies, baiters, barefit, barites, bickers, bifaces, bracket, brisket, britska, cakiest, caribes, cristae, fabrics, fairest, farcies, fiacres, frisket, kaffirs, karstic, raciest, rackets, rebaits, restack, restaff, retacks, rickets, setback, stacker, staffer, stearic, sticker, stiffer, tackers, tackier, taffies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BICKERSTAFF


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

42 49 43 4B 45 52 53 54 41 46 46

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 01001001 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010010 01010011 01010100 01000001 01000110 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#82 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#70 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0043 004B 0045 0052 0053 0054 0041 0046 0046

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

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

3643374539525354354040

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Names: Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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