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DOBBY'S WALK

Specialty Definition: DOBBY'S WALK

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Dobby's Walk The goblin's haunt or beat. Dobby is an archaic word for a goblin or brownie. (See Washington Irving's Bracebridge Hall, ii. 183-6.) Dobby also means an imbecile old man.
"The Dobby's walk was within the inhabited domains of the Hall." - Sir W Scott: Peveril of the Peak, chap.x. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: DOBBY'S WALK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-b-b-d-k-l-o-s-w-y"

-4 letters: blowbys.

-5 letters: alkyds, blowby, blowsy, boylas, bylaws, doblas, kabobs, slobby, swabby, wabbly, woalds, wobbly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DOBBY'S WALK


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

44 4F 42 42 59 27 53      57 41 4C 4B

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

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001111 01000010 01000010 01011001 00100111 01010011 00100000 01010111 01000001 01001100 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#66 &#66 &#89 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#87 &#65 &#76 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0042 0042 0059 0027 0053      0057 0041 004C 004B

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

3849363659953257354645

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