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DOG-CHEAP

Specialty Definition: DOG-CHEAP

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Dog-cheap A perversion of the old English god-chepe (a good bargain). French, bon marché (good-cheap or bargain).
"The sack ... would have bought me lights
As good-cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe."
- Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., iii. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: DOG-CHEAP

Specialty definitions using "DOG-CHEAP": Beefeaters. (references)

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Modern Translation: DOG-CHEAP

Language Translations for "DOG-CHEAP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

xhaba (dirt cheap), i lirë fare. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

много евтино (dirt cheap), много евтин (dirt cheap). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nagyon olcsón, nagyon olcsó. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

og-cheapday

   

Portuguese

  

ditatorial (dictatorial, magisterial, overbearing, peremptory), autoritariamente, autoritário (authoritarian, bossy, commanding, dictatorial, domineering, emphatic, magisterial, masterful, overbearing, peremptory, self-assertive). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

очень дешевый (dirt cheap, dirt-cheap), очень дешево (dirt cheap). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

jako jeftino, jako jeftin. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

muy barato (dirt cheap), barato (cheap, dirt cheap, inexpensive, nickel and dime, two bit). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sudan ucuz (cheap as dirt, dirt cheap). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

дуже дешевий (dirt cheap). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

rẻ thối ra, rẻ như bèo, rẻ mạt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DOG-CHEAP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-h-o-p"

-1 letter: poached.

-2 letters: cheapo, cohead.

-3 letters: ached, cadge, caged, caped, chape, cheap, coped, ephod, epoch, gaped, hoped, paced, paged, pagod, peach, phage, poach.

-4 letters: aced, ache, aged, aped, apod, cade, cage, cape, caph, capo, chad, chao, chap, chop, coda, code, coed, cope, dace, dago, deco, doge, dopa, dope, each, echo, egad, epha, gaed, gape, goad.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-g-h-o-p"
 

+3 letters: demographic, ideographic.

 

+4 letters: demographics, discographer, hectographed, micrographed, phagocytized, phagocytosed.

 

+5 letters: choreographed, demographical, discographers, discographies.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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