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Definition: HIGH-BLOWN |
HIGH-BLOWNAdjective1. Inflated, as with conceit. |
Date "HIGH-BLOWN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "HIGH-BLOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | силно надут, надут (bombastic, conceited, consequential, coxcombical, declamatory, florid, grandiloquent, haughty, highfaluting, important, inflated, magniloquent, mandarin, mouthy, orotund, overblown, pompous, portentous, prancing, puffy, sidy, solemn, sounding, stilted, swelling, swollen, theatrical, tumid, uppish, uppity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fennhéjázó (bumptious, cavalier, consequential, domineering, haughty, lofty, overweening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igh-blownhay bombastic (baggy, bombastic, bombastically, declamatory, emphatic, exaggerative, flamboyant, grandiloquent, grandiose, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, plethoric, puffy, rotund, stilted, turgid). (various references) сильно раздутый, напыщенный (bombastic, declamatory, flatulent, grandiloquent, grandiose, highfalutin, highfaluting, mouth-filling, mouthy, orotund, pompous, toploty, tub-thumping, tumid). (various references) nadmen (disdainful, domineering, haughty, high-flown). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-h-h-i-l-n-o-w" | |
-2 letters: blowing, bowling, howling. | |
-3 letters: bowing, globin, goblin, holing, lowing. | |
-4 letters: bingo, blown, boing, lingo, ohing, owing. | |
-5 letters: blin, blow, boil, bong, bowl, glib, glob, glow, gown, high, hong, howl, ling, lino, lion, loin, long, lown, nigh, noil, whig, whin, wing, wino. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 49 47 48 2D 42 4C 4F 57 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001001 01000111 01001000 00101101 01000010 01001100 01001111 01010111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H I G H - B L O W N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0049 0047 0048 002D 0042 004C 004F 0057 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42434142153646495748 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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