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Literature | Dunmow To eat Dunmow bacon. To live in conjugal amity, without even wishing the marriage knot to be less firmly tied. The allusion is to the institution of Robert Fitzwalter. Between 1244 and 1772 eight claimants have been admitted to eat the flitch. Their names merit immortality. 1445. Richard Wright, labourer, Bauburgh, near Norwich. 1467 Steven Samuel, of Little Ayston, Essex. 1510. Thomas Ley, fuller, Coggeshall, Essex. 1701. William and Jane Parsley, butcher, Much-Easton, Essex. Same year, John and Ann Reynolds, Hatfield Regis. 1751. Thomas Shakeshaft, wool-comber, Weathersfield, Essex. 1763. Names unknown ! ! 1772. John and Susan Gilder, Tarling, Essex. The attempt to revive this "premium for humbug" is a mere "get-up" for the benefit of the town. "Ah, madam: cease to be mistaken; Few married fowl peck Dunmow bacon." Prior: Turtle and Sparrow, 233. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: DUNMOW |
| Specialty definitions using "DUNMOW": Dunmow Flitch. (references) |
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| "DUNMOW" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "DUNMOW" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 63.64% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 36.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dunmow kingdom united | 7 |
co.uk contact dunmow essex | 3 |
great dunmow | 2 |
dunmow | 2 |
dunmow great hotel uk | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-m-n-o-u-w" | |
-1 letter: mound, wound. | |
-2 letters: doum, down, mown, muon, undo. | |
-3 letters: dom, don, dow, dun, duo, mod, mon, mow, mud, mun, nod, nom, now, oud, own, udo, won, wud. | |
-4 letters: do, mo, mu, no, nu, od, om, on, ow, um, un, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-m-n-o-u-w" | |
+2 letters: unwisdom. | |
+3 letters: roundworm, unwisdoms. | |
+4 letters: roundworms, tumbledown. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 55 4E 4D 4F 57 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. ..- -. -- --- .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01010101 01001110 01001101 01001111 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D U N M O W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0055 004E 004D 004F 0057 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)385548474957 |
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