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DAUBY

Definition: DAUBY

DAUBY

Adjective

1. Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Modern Translations: DAUBY

Language Translations for "DAUBY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ngjitës (adhesive, agglutinative, ascendant, catching, cement, communicable, contagious, epidemic, epidemical, glue, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, hum paste, infectious, mucilage, pitchy, soaring, stick, sticking, sticky, tacky, tenacious, transmissible, upward, viscous), e dobët. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

нацапан, лошо нарисуван (out of drawing, scratchy). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ragadós (adherent, adhesive, gluey, glutinous, gummy, lentous, mucilaginous, sticky, stiff, tacky, viscid, viscous). (various references)

   

Italian

  

attaccaticcio. (various references)

   

Manx

  

slaait (blotchy, daubed, painted, plastered, smearer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aubyday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

viscoso (glairy, gluey, heavy, lentous, limy, of high viscosity, ropy, semifluid, slimy, sticky, stiff, stringy, tacky, tenacious, viscid, viscous), pegajoso (clammy, clinging, clingy, Cloggy, gluey, gummy, lentous, linage, pitchlike, pitchy, ropy, slimy, sticky, stringy, tacky, viscid, viscous), mal pintado, borrado (blurry, smudgy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

липкий (adhesive, clingy, gluey, glutinous, goo, gooey, gummy, lentous, ropy, sticky, tacky, viscous), плохо написанный. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

smetig (smeary, unctuous). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bôi bác. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DAUBY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-u-y"

-1 letter: baud, daub, yaud.

-2 letters: aby, bad, bay, bud, buy, dab, day, dub.

-3 letters: ab, ad, ay, ba, by, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-u-y"
 

+1 letter: daubry.

 

+2 letters: audibly, daubery, durably, ladybug.

 

+3 letters: absurdly, boundary, ladybugs, laudably, obduracy, subwayed.

 

+4 letters: absurdity, bodyguard, budgetary, butylated, endurably, husbandly, husbandry, inaudibly, subacidly.

 

+5 letters: abundantly, audibility, bawdyhouse, bodyguards, debauchery, disputably, durability, illaudably, lumberyard, obdurately, perdurably, subaudibly, subsidiary, unabatedly, undeniably.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DAUBY


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

44 41 55 42 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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)

01000100 01000001 01010101 01000010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#65 &#85 &#66 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0041 0055 0042 0059

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

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

3835553659

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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