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GRUMBO

Specialty Definition: GRUMBO

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Grumbo A giant in the tale of Tom Thumb. A raven picked up Tom, thinking him to be a grain of corn, and dropped him on the flat roof of the giant's castle. Old Grumbo came to walk on the roof terrace, and Tom crept up his sleeve. The giant, annoyed, shook his sleeve, and Tom fell into the sea, where a fish swallowed him, and the fish, having been caught and brought to Arthur's table, was the means of introducing Tom to the British king, by whom he was knighted. (Nursery Tale: Tom Thumb.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: GRUMBO

Specialty definitions using "GRUMBO": Giants. (references)

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Anagrams: GRUMBO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-g-m-o-r-u"

-1 letter: bourg, gumbo.

-2 letters: burg, grub, grum, umbo.

-3 letters: bog, bro, bug, bum, bur, gob, gor, gum, mob, mog, mor, mug, orb, our, rob, rom, rub, rug, rum, urb.

-4 letters: bo, go, mo, mu, om, or, um.

 Words containing the letters "b-g-m-o-r-u"
 

+1 letter: homburg.

 

+2 letters: brougham, grubworm, homburgs.

 

+3 letters: beglamour, broughams, grubworms.

 

+4 letters: beglamours, seaborgium, subprogram, tambouring, umbrageous.

 

+5 letters: beglamoured, borborygmus, burgomaster, seaborgiums, subprograms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GRUMBO


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

47 52 55 4D 42 4F

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000111 01010010 01010101 01001101 01000010 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#85 &#77 &#66 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0055 004D 0042 004F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

415255473649

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3. Orthography
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