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HIGH-BLOWN

Definition: HIGH-BLOWN

HIGH-BLOWN

Adjective

1. Inflated, as with conceit.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HIGH-BLOWN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

 

Modern Translations: HIGH-BLOWN

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

   

Romanian

  

bombastic (baggy, bombastic, bombastically, declamatory, emphatic, exaggerative, flamboyant, grandiloquent, grandiose, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, plethoric, puffy, rotund, stilted, turgid). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сильно раздутый, напыщенный (bombastic, declamatory, flatulent, grandiloquent, grandiose, highfalutin, highfaluting, mouth-filling, mouthy, orotund, pompous, toploty, tub-thumping, tumid). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nadmen (disdainful, domineering, haughty, high-flown). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HIGH-BLOWN

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HIGH-BLOWN


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

48 49 47 48 2D 42 4C 4F 57 4E

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

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

01001000 01001001 01000111 01001000 00101101 01000010 01001100 01001111 01010111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#45 &#66 &#76 &#79 &#87 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0049 0047 0048 002D 0042 004C 004F 0057 004E

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

42434142153646495748

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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