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EYE-SORE

Date "EYE-SORE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

Specialty Definition: EYE-SORE

Domain	Definition
Literature	Eye-sore Something that is offensive to the sight. Sore is the Anglo-Saxon Sar (painful) or swær (grievous). It is painful or grievous to the eye. "Mordecai was an eye-sore to Haman." - D'Estrange. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	EYE-SORE. A disagreeable object. It will be an eye-sore as long as she lives, said by a limn whose wife was cut for a fistula in ano. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Modern Translation: EYE-SORE

Language		Translations for "EYE-SORE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		olla jonkun silmätikkuna (be an eye-sore to). (various references)

Pig Latin		eye-soreay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: EYE-SORE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: eyesore.
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-o-r-s-y"
	-2 letters: erose, eyers, eyres, oyers, resee, yores.
	-3 letters: eery, eros, eyer, eyes, eyre, ores, oyer, oyes, rees, roes, rose, rosy, ryes, seer, sere, sore, yore.
	-4 letters: ere, ers, eye, oes, ore, ors, ose, ree, res, roe, rye, see, ser, soy, yes.
	-5 letters: er, es, oe, or, os, oy, re, so, ye, yo.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-o-r-s-y"
	+1 letter: eyesores.
	+3 letters: eyeopeners, eyepoppers, stereotype.
	+4 letters: eyedroppers, heterodynes, heterolyses, honeyeaters, stereotyped, stereotyper, stereotypes.
	+5 letters: cryopreserve, electrolyses, electrolytes, electrolyzes, electrotypes, eleemosynary, embryogenies, heterocycles, moneylenders, stereotypers, stereotypies, teenyboppers.
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Alternative Orthography: EYE-SORE

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

45 59 45 2D 53 4F 52 45

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

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

01000101 01011001 01000101 00101101 01010011 01001111 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#89 &#69 &#45 &#83 &#79 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0059 0045 002D 0053 004F 0052 0045

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

3959391553495239

INDEX

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

5. Bibliography

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