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BAD LOT

Specialty Definition: BAD LOT

Domain	Definition
Literature	Bad Lot (A). A person of bad moral character, or one commercially unsound. Also a commercial project or stock of worthless value. The allusion is to auctioneering slang, meaning a lot which no one will bid for. So an inefficient soldier is called one of the Queen's bad bargains. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression: BAD LOT

Expression using "BAD LOT": they are a bad lot. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: BAD LOT

Language		Translations for "BAD LOT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		пасмина (brood, crew, gang, tribe). (various references)

Czech		lump (blackguard, heel, knave, louse, rascal, skunk, villain, wretch). (various references)

Hungarian		semmirekellő ember (bad hat, ullage). (various references)

Manx		drogh-yantagh (a bad lot, wrongdoer). (various references)

Pig Latin		adbay otlay

Romanian		soi rãu (bad egg, limb), poamã (fruit, light woman, rep). (various references)

Russian		непутевый (bad egg, bad hat, scampish), никудышный человек (bad egg, bad hat, poor fish), мошенник (bad egg, bad hat, bilker, bunco-steerer, cheater, chevalier of fortune, chevalier of industry, confidence man, fleabag, fraudster, grafter, gyp, hoaxer, impostor, knave, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, ratbag, sham, sharpy, swindler). (various references)

Spanish		mala persona (bad egg). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: BAD LOT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-l-o-t"
	-1 letter: bloat, dobla, dotal.
	-2 letters: alto, bald, blat, blot, boat, bola, bold, bolt, bota, dato, doat, dolt, load, lota, toad, tola, told.
	-3 letters: abo, ado, alb, alt, bad, bal, bat, boa, bod, bot, dab, dal, dol, dot, lab, lad, lat, lob, lot, oat, old, tab, tad, tao, tod.
	-4 letters: ab, ad, al, at, ba, bo.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-l-o-t"
	+1 letter: bloated, lobated, tabloid.
	+2 letters: balloted, boatload, bolthead, deadbolt, foldboat, globated, tabloids.
	+3 letters: adoptable, batfowled, bloodbath, bloviated, boatloads, bobtailed, boltheads, broadtail, deadbolts, deathblow, detonable, diabolist, doubtable, foldboats, idioblast, lobulated, molybdate, obligated, outbawled, outblazed, outfabled, tailboard.
	+4 letters: bardolater, bardolatry, bimodality, blastoderm, blastodisc, bloodbaths, bloodstain, botryoidal, bottomland, broadcloth, broadtails, deathblows, deportable, diabolists, elaborated, idioblasts, molybdates, mothballed, obdurately, outbleated, outbrawled, paddleboat, roundtable, subtotaled, tailboards, tailorbird.
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Alternative Orthography: BAD LOT

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

42 41 44 4C 4F 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01000100 00100000 01001100 01001111 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#68 &#32 &#76 &#79 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0044 004C 004F 0054

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

3635382464954

INDEX

1. Expressions
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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