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BUMMAREES

Specialty Definition: BUMMAREES

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Bummarees A class of middlemen or fish-jobbers in Billingsgate Market, who get a living by bummareeing, i.e. buying parcels of fish from the salesmen, and then retailing them. A corruption of bonne marée, good fresh fish, or the seller thereof. According to the Dictionnaire de l'Académie, marée means toute sorte de poisson de mer que n'est pas salé. Bonne marée, marée fraiche. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: BUMMAREES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-m-m-r-s-u"

-2 letters: ambeers, besmear, bummers, embrues, measure, members.

-3 letters: abuser, ambeer, ambers, ameers, amuser, bemuse, bermes, breams, brumes, bummer, bursae, embars, embers, embrue, emmers, member, ramees, reseau, resume, rumbas, sambur, seamer, summae, summer, umbers, umbrae, umbras, urease.

-4 letters: abuse, amber, ameer, amuse, arums, aures, bares, barms, baser, beams, bears, beaus, beers, bemas, berme, berms, braes.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-m-m-r-s-u"
 

+3 letters: immeasurable, immensurable.

 

+4 letters: commensurable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BUMMAREES


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

42 55 4D 4D 41 52 45 45 53

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 01010101 01001101 01001101 01000001 01010010 01000101 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#85 &#77 &#77 &#65 &#82 &#69 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0055 004D 004D 0041 0052 0045 0045 0053

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

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

365547473552393953

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