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Definitions: FIRK |
FIRKIntransitive verb1. To fly out; to turn out; to go off. Noun1. A freak; trick; quirk. Transitive verb1. To beat; to strike; to chastise. |
Date "FIRK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
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Words beginning with "FIRK": firkin, firkins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-k-r" | |
-1 letter: fir, irk, kif, kir, rif. | |
-2 letters: if. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-k-r" | |
+1 letter: fakir, frisk, kafir, kefir. | |
+2 letters: fakirs, firkin, frisks, frisky, kaffir, kafirs, kefirs, knifer. | |
+3 letters: fickler, finmark, firkins, flakier, flicker, flukier, forkier, forking, frisked, frisker, frisket, funkier, kaffirs, kerfing, knifers, ratfink, turfski. | |
+4 letters: backfire, biforked, disfrock, fakeries, fernlike, finmarks, finnmark, fireback, firelock, firepink, firework, flickers, flickery, flockier, folksier, foremilk, foreskin, forkiest, forklift, forklike, franking, franklin, freakier, freakily, freaking, freakish, friskers, friskets, friskier, friskily, frisking, frocking, froglike, frolicky, kerchief, lifework, ratfinks, refusnik, rockfish, rooflike, rufflike, serflike, surflike, turflike, turfskis, wakerife. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 49 52 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. .-. -.- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001001 01010010 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F I R K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0049 0052 004B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40435245 |
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