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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cornish Hug A hug to overthrow you. The Cornish men were famous wrestlers, and tried to throttle their antagonist with a particular grip or embrace called the Cornish hug. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | CORNISH HUG. A particular lock in wrestling, peculiar to the people of that county. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Cornish hug; wolf in sheep's clothing; (deceiver); disguise, disguisement; false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes; pattes de velours. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-h-h-i-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: chorusing. | |
-2 letters: chousing, coursing, crushing, hocusing, rhonchus, roughish, ruchings, scouring, sourcing. | |
-3 letters: choring, choughs, congius, coshing, cursing, cushion, horsing, housing, hushing, nourish, ochring, ouching, rhonchi, roguish, rousing, ruching, rushing, scoring, shoring, souring, urchins. | |
-4 letters: chinos, chiros, choirs, chorus, chough, choush, churns, coigns, corgis, coring, cornus, cosign, coughs, cousin, curing, curios, girons, grinch, grison, groins. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-h-h-i-n-o-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: churchgoings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 52 4E 49 53 48 48 55 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01010010 01001110 01001001 01010011 01001000 00100000 01001000 01010101 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O R N I S H   H U G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 0052 004E 0049 0053 0048 0048 0055 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)374952484353422425541 |
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