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GIG-MANITY

Specialty Definition: GIG-MANITY

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Gig-manity Respectability. A word invented by Carlyle. A witness in the trial of John Thurtell said, "I always thought him [Thurtell] a respectable man." And being asked by the judge what he meant, replied, "He [Thurtell] kept a gig."
"A princess of the blood, yet whose father had sold his inexpressibles ... in a word, Gigmanity disgigged. - Carlyle: The Diamond Necklace, chap. v. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: GIG-MANITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-i-m-n-t-y"

-2 letters: aminity, gaiting, imaging.

-3 letters: aiming, gaming, gating, intima, mating, maying, taming, timing.

-4 letters: aging, amity, animi, gamin, giant, mangy, matin, mingy, minty, naggy, tangy, tying.

-5 letters: agin, amin, anti, ayin, gain, gait, gamy, gang, giga, gnat, inia, inti, magi, main, many, migg, mina, mini, mint, mity, myna, tain, tang, ting, tiny, tyin, yagi, yang.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GIG-MANITY


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

47 49 47 2D 4D 41 4E 49 54 59

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

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

01000111 01001001 01000111 00101101 01001101 01000001 01001110 01001001 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#73 &#71 &#45 &#77 &#65 &#78 &#73 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0049 0047 002D 004D 0041 004E 0049 0054 0059

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

41434115473548435459

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