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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Kiss the Rod (To). To submit to punishment or misfortune meekly and without murmuring. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Submission | Eat dirt, eat the leek, eat humble pie; bite the dust, lick the dust; be at one's feet, fall at one's feet; craven; crouch before, throw oneself at the feet of; swallow the leek, swallow the pill; kiss the rod; turn the other cheek; avaler les couleuvres, gulp down. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "KISS THE ROD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | безропотно понасям наказание, безропотно понасям бой. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zokszó nélkül aláveti magát a büntetésnek (to kiss the rod), megalázkodik (cringe, kotow, kowtow, to abase oneself, to cringe, to eat humble pie, to grovel, to kiss the rod, to kotow, to kowtow, truckle), alázatosan aláveti magát a büntetésnek (to kiss the rod). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isskay ethay odray primi pedeapsã cu supunere. (various references) cezaya boyun eğmek. (various references) підкоритися своїй долі. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-k-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: droshkies. | |
-2 letters: dorkiest, droskies, hidroses, hoisters, horsiest, shorties, steroids. | |
-3 letters: dehorts, dissert, dithers, dossier, editors, heriots, hoisted, hoister, hokiest, horstes, hosiers, ketosis, koshers, rosiest, shirked, shorted, shortie, shrieks, shrikes, skirted, sorites, sortied, sorties, steroid, stokers, storied, stories, strides, strikes, stroked, strokes, theroid, triodes, trioses. | |
-4 letters: dehort, deists, desist, dhotis, dikers, direst, dishes, dither, dories. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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