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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Friar Tuck Chaplain and steward of Robin Hood. Introduced by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe. He is a pudgy, paunchy, humorous, self-indulgent, and combative clerical Falstaff. His costume consisted of a russet habit of the Franciscan order, a red corded girdle with gold tassel, red stockings, and a wallet. A friar was nicknamed tuck, because his dress was tucked by a girdle at the waist. Thus Chaucer says, "Tucked he was, as is a frere about." "In this our spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John; Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws, and their trade." Drayton: Polyolbion, s.26. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
friar tuck | 60 |
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| Language | Translations for "FRIAR TUCK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Thai | การมีเพศสัมพันธ์ (bed, bonk). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-k-r-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: fractur, fraktur. | |
-3 letters: curari, fracti, uratic. | |
-4 letters: afrit, auric, craft, crura, curia, fakir, farci, friar, fruit, kafir, kauri, kraft, krait, kraut, kurta, track, traik, triac, trick, truck, urari. | |
-5 letters: airt, cark, carr, cart, cuif, curf, curr, curt, fact, fair, fiar, fiat, frat, frit, fuci, ikat, kaif, kart, rack, raft, raki, rick, rift, ruck, tack. | |
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