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Date "BUNCLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Buncle (John). "A prodigious hand at matrimony, divinity, a song, and a peck." He marries seven wives, loses all in the flower of their age, is inconsolable for two or three days, then resigns himself to the decrees of Providence, and marries again. (The Life and Opinions of John Buncle, Esq., by Thomas Amory.) "John is a kind of innocent Henry VIII. of private life."- Leigh Hunt. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BUNCLE": carbuncle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BUNCLE": carbuncled, carbuncles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-l-n-u" | |
-1 letter: uncle. | |
-2 letters: blue, club, clue, cube, lube, luce, lune, unbe. | |
-3 letters: bel, ben, bun, cel, cub, cue, ecu, leu, neb, nub. | |
-4 letters: be, el, en, ne, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-l-n-u" | |
+1 letter: clubmen. | |
+2 letters: baculine, beuncled, bullneck, unbuckle. | |
+3 letters: ambulance, bullnecks, carbuncle, colubrine, columbine, countable, incunable, incurable, inducible, interclub, jubilance, unactable, unbalance, unblocked, unbuckled, unbuckles. | |
+4 letters: ambulances, beclouding, binucleate, bucklering, bullnecked, carbuncled, carbuncles, censurable, clubbiness, columbines, consumable, crunchable, cuttlebone, ebullience, ebulliency, enunciable, includable, includible, inculpable, incunables, incurables, ineducable, jubilances, outbalance, publicness, quenchable, republican, subceiling, subcentral, sublicense, subnuclear, tuberculin, turbulence, turbulency, turnbuckle, unbalanced, unbalances, unbleached, unblenched, unchewable, uneducable, unscalable, unscramble, unsociable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 55 4E 43 4C 45 |
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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 01010101 01001110 01000011 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B U N C L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0055 004E 0043 004C 0045 |
| 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)365548374639 |
| 1. Definition 2. Derivations 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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