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BEDIZENED

Date "BEDIZENED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1670. (references)


Specialty Definition: BEDIZENED

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

BEDIZENED. Dressed out, over-dressed, or awkwardly ornamented. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Synonyms within Context: BEDIZENED

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Vulgarity

Gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo; bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread; obtrusive.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Misspellings: BEDIZENED

Misspellings

"BEDIZENED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bendizened, bidizened. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BEDIZENED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-e-e-i-n-z"

-2 letters: bedizen, dizened.

-3 letters: bended, bendee, bidden, denied, indeed, needed.

-4 letters: bided, diene, dined, dizen, ended, nided, zineb.

-5 letters: been, bend, bene, bide, bind, bine, bize, deed, dene, deni, died, dine, eide, need, nide, zein.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BEDIZENED


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

42 45 44 49 5A 45 4E 45 44

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 01000101 01000100 01001001 01011010 01000101 01001110 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#68 &#73 &#90 &#69 &#78 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0044 0049 005A 0045 004E 0045 0044

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

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

363938436039483938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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