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CHUMMAGE

Specialty Definition: CHUMMAGE

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Slang in 1811

CHUMMAGE. Money paid by the richer sort of prisoners in the Fleet and King's Bench, to the poorer, for their share of a room. When prisons are very full, which is too often the case, particularly on the eve of an insolvent act, two or three persons are ob. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Date "CHUMMAGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)


Anagrams: CHUMMAGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-h-m-m-u"

-2 letters: gauche.

-3 letters: gemma, gumma, mache.

-4 letters: ache, acme, ague, ahem, cage, came, cham, chug, chum, each, game, gaum, geum, haem, hame, huge, mace, mach, mage, much.

-5 letters: ace, age, amu, cam, cue, cum, eau, ecu, emu, gae, gam, gem, gum, hae, hag, ham, hem, hmm, hue, hug, hum, mac, mae, mag, meg, mem, mug.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CHUMMAGE


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

43 48 55 4D 4D 41 47 45

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)

01000011 01001000 01010101 01001101 01001101 01000001 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#72 &#85 &#77 &#77 &#65 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0048 0055 004D 004D 0041 0047 0045

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

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

3742554747354139

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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