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Date "DANDIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
"DANDIN" is a common misspelling or typo for: Dancing, Dander, Dandling, Dandy, Dentin, Sanding. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dandin (French). A ninny, a snob. From Molière's comedy of George Dandin. Dandin (George). A French cit, who marries a sprig of nobility, and lives with his wife's parents. Madame appeals on all occasions to her father and mother, who, of course, take her part against her husband. Poor George is in a sad plight, and is for ever lamenting his fate with the expression, Vous l'avez voulu, George Dandin (`Tis your own fault, George Dandin). George Dandin stands for anyone who marries above his sphere, and is pecked by his wife and mother-in-law. The word means "a ninny." (Molière's comedy so called.) Perrin Dandin. A sort of Lynch judge in Rabelais, who seated himself on the trunk of the first tree he came to, and there decided the causes submitted to him. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Penitence | Phrase: peccavi; erubuit; salva res est; Tu l'as voulu, Georges Dandin; "and wet his grave with my repentant tears". |
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Crosswords: DANDIN |
| Etymologies containing "DANDIN": Dandy. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Georges Dandin (1973) Avagy a megcsúfolt férj Dandin György (1955) Georges Dandin de Molière (1996) Dandin (1987) Georges Dandin (1980) | |
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Moliere | You've asked for it, Georges Dandin, you've asked for it. |
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Expression using "DANDIN": Georges Dandin. Additional references. | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-i-n-n" | |
-3 letters: add, aid, ain, and, ani, dad, did, din, inn, nan. | |
-4 letters: ad, ai, an, id, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-i-n-n" | |
+2 letters: dandling, ordinand, uncandid. | |
+3 letters: dandelion, dandering, deadening, demanding, desanding, inundated, maddening, nonaddict, ordinands, saddening, undrained. | |
+4 letters: behindhand, candidness, dandelions, dandifying, daundering, deadenings, definienda, denudating, denudation, diamonding, disbanding, disdaining, gladdening, goddamning, handmaiden, ironhanded, nonaddicts, uncandidly, unsaddling. | |
+5 letters: bemaddening, deadeningly, deadpanning, demandingly, denominated, denudations, disannulled, disbandment, downgrading, downloading, handholding, handmaidens, incandesced, landholding, landsliding, maddeningly, nonadditive, nondidactic, nondisabled, redemanding, undemanding, undiagnosed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 4E 44 49 4E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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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)01000100 01000001 01001110 01000100 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A N D I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 004E 0044 0049 004E |
| 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)383548384348 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Expressions 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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