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Etymology: Badaud \Ba`daud"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Badaud A booby. C'est un franc badaud, he is a regular booby. Le badaud de Paris, a French cockney. From the Italian, badare, to gaze in the air, to stare about one. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fool | Noun: fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl; goose, goosecap; imbecile; gaby; radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BADAUD |
| Non-English Usage: "BADAUD" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (gaper, looker on, rubberneck, stroller). |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-u" | |
-1 letter: audad. | |
-2 letters: baud, dada, daub, duad. | |
-3 letters: aba, add, baa, bad, bud, dab, dad, dub, dud. | |
-4 letters: aa, ab, ad, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-d-u" | |
+3 letters: unabraded. | |
+4 letters: adumbrated, ambuscaded, unbandaged. | |
+5 letters: balustraded, substandard. | |
| 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 44 41 55 44 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -.. .- ..- -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01000100 01000001 01010101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A D A U D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0044 0041 0055 0044 |
| 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)363538355538 |
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