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DRAWCANSIR

Definition: DRAWCANSIR

DRAWCANSIR

Noun

1. A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DRAWCANSIR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

Specialty Definition: DRAWCANSIR

Domain	Definition
Literature	Drawcansir A burlesque tyrant in The Rehearsal, by G. Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1672). He kills every one, "sparing neither friend nor foe." The name stands for a blustering braggart, and the farce is said to have been a satire on Dryden's inflated tragedies. (See Bayes, Bobadil.) "[He] frights his mistress, snubs up kings, Baffles armies,and does what he will, without Regard to numbers, good sense, or justice." - Bayes: The Rehearsal. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms within Context: DRAWCANSIR

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Blusterer	Noun: blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler; fanfaron; braggart; (boaster); bully, terrorist, rough; bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, roarer; Mohock, Mohawk; drawcansir, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos; jingo; desperado, dare-devil, fire eater; fury; (violent person); rowdy; slang-whanger, tough.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: DRAWCANSIR

Domain	Title
Books	The Covent Garden Theatre, Or, Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir, 1752 (Publication / Augustan Reprint Society, No 116) (reference) (more book examples)
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Anagrams: DRAWCANSIR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-i-n-r-r-s-w"
	-3 letters: acarids, acrasin, airward, arnicas, ascarid, canards, cardias, carinas, inwards, radians, scandia.
	-4 letters: acarid, acinar, arnica, awards, cairds, cairns, canard, canids, cardia, carina, crania, darics, dinars, diwans, drains, inward, nadirs, naiads, nairas, nicads, radars, radian, rancid, ranids, rawins, sardar, sirdar.
	-5 letters: acari, acids, acrid, airns, arias, arras, arris, asdic, award, cadis, caids, cains, caird.
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Alternative Orthography: DRAWCANSIR

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

44 52 41 57 43 41 4E 53 49 52

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)

01000100 01010010 01000001 01010111 01000011 01000001 01001110 01010011 01001001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#65 &#87 &#67 &#65 &#78 &#83 &#73 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0041 0057 0043 0041 004E 0053 0049 0052

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

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

38523557373548534352

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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