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BUAG

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BUAG // n. [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Graphic. Pejorative term for ugly ASCII art, especially as found in sig blocks. For some reason, mutations of the head of Bart Simpson are particularly common in the least imaginative sig blocks. See warlording. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: BUAG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-g-u"

-1 letter: bag, bug, gab.

-2 letters: ab, ag, ba.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-g-u"
 

+2 letters: bagful, baguet, beluga, bugsha, cubage, hagbut, sagbut.

 

+3 letters: abought, abusing, antibug, auberge, bagfuls, bagsful, baguets, bearhug, belugas, bubinga, bugaboo, bugbane, bugbear, bugshas, bulkage, buoyage, burgage, burghal, burglar, cubages, daubing, gunboat, hagbush, hagbuts, hamburg, ladybug, lumbago, outbrag, sagbuts, scumbag, subgoal, tabuing, tugboat, umbrage.

 

+4 letters: abducing, abjuring, abutting, arguable, arguably, auberges, baghouse, baguette, barguest, baulking, bearhugs, bigamous, bijugate, blackgum, brougham, bubingas, bugaboos, bugbanes, bugbears, bulkages, bullyrag, bungalow, buoyages, burgages, burglars, burglary, burgrave, bushgoat, faubourg, gadabout, galbanum, gambusia, glabrous, globular, guidable, gullable, gullably, gunboats, gunnybag, gustable, hamburgs, huggable, ladybugs, lumbagos, mealybug, megabuck, osnaburg, outbrags, plumbago, rumbaing, rutabaga, scumbags, slugabed, subagent, subgoals, subgrade, subgraph, substage, tugboats, umbrages.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BUAG


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

42 55 41 47

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 01010101 01000001 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#85 &#65 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0055 0041 0047

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

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

36553541

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