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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Babau The bogie with which nurses in Languedoc terrify unruly children. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
babau | 14 |
babau bikini dare | 4 |
babau bikini | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-u" | |
-1 letter: abba, baba, babu. | |
-2 letters: aba, baa, bub. | |
-3 letters: aa, ab, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b-u" | |
+2 letters: babassu. | |
+3 letters: abusable, babassus, babirusa, babushka. | |
+4 letters: babirusas, babushkas, barbarous. | |
+5 letters: unbearable, unbearably, unbeatable, unbeatably. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 42 41 55 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -... .- ..- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01000010 01000001 01010101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A B A U |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0042 0041 0055 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3635363555 |
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