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Literature | Green Man This public-house sign represents the gamekeeper, who used at one time to be dressed in green. "But the `Green Man' shall I pass by unsung, Which mine own James upon his sign-post hung? His sign, his image - for he once was seen A squire's attendant, clad in keeper's green." Crabbe: Borough. The men who let off fireworks were called Green-men in the reign of James I. "Have you any squibs, any green-man in your shows?" - The Seven Champions of Christondom. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Green Man is a symbol of uncertain origin common in the British Isles, especially in and on churches, though it is more likeley pagan in nature. It depicts a man with foliage for hair usually with a leafy beard. Also known as Green George or Jack-in-the-Green. It is popular with modern Wiccans and other Neopagans.
The Green Man is a 1956 British comedy film starring Alastair Sim as a jovial freelance assassin.
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The Green Man is a 1990 British Horror film starring Albert Finney as an alcoholic inn-keeper.
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Crosswords: GREEN MAN |
| Specialty definitions using "GREEN MAN": Green Man and Still ♦ Public-house Signs. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Green Man (1956) | |
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| Language | Translations for "GREEN MAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Czech | zelený pánaèek, zelená. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eengray anmay | ||||
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"GREEN MAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Greenman. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-m-n-n-r" | |
-1 letter: germane. | |
-2 letters: engram, enrage, genera, german, germen, manege, manger, manner, meager, meagre, meaner, menage, ragmen, rename. | |
-3 letters: agene, agree, ameer, anger, eager, eagre, enema, gamer, genre, green, mange, marge, merge, namer, ragee, ramee, ramen, ranee, range, regma, regna, reman. | |
-4 letters: agee, ager, amen, earn, eger, erne, gaen, game, gane, gear, gene, germ, gnar, gram. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-m-n-n-r" | |
+2 letters: meandering. | |
+3 letters: arrangement, derangement, engraftment, enlargement, enumerating, maneuvering, realignment, redemanding, reexamining. | |
+4 letters: arrangements, derangements, endangerment, engraftments, enlargements, estrangement, governmental, greenmailing, permanganate, realignments, reassignment, reengagement, remaindering, remunerating, undergarment, ungerminated. | |
+5 letters: commandeering, embranglement, encouragement, endangerments, estrangements, exterminating, integumentary, overdemanding, permanganates, rearrangement, reassignments, reengagements, regimentation, roentgenogram, undergarments. | |
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