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HOOK AND SNIVEY

Specialty Definition: HOOK AND SNIVEY

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Slang in 1811

HOOK AND SNIVEY, WITH NIX THE BUFFER. This rig consists in feeding a man and a dog for nothing, and is carried on thus: Three men, one of who pretends to be sick and unable to eat, go to a public house: the two well men make a bargain with the landlord fo. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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Crosswords: HOOK AND SNIVEY

Specialty definitions using "HOOK AND SNIVEY": WITH NIX THE BUFFER. (references)

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Anagrams: HOOK AND SNIVEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-k-n-n-o-o-s-v-y"

-5 letters: adhesion, anodynes, hyoidean, kyanised, nainsook, noondays, skinhead, vandykes, vanished.

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Alternative Orthography: HOOK AND SNIVEY


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

48 4F 4F 4B      41 4E 44      53 4E 49 56 45 59

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

        

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

01001000 01001111 01001111 01001011 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01010011 01001110 01001001 01010110 01000101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#79 &#79 &#75 &#32 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#83 &#78 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 004F 004F 004B      0041 004E 0044      0053 004E 0049 0056 0045 0059

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

4249494523548382534843563959

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