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Messenger Boy

Definition: Messenger Boy

Messenger Boy

Noun

1. A boy who earns money by running errands.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Messenger Boy

DomainDefinitions

19th Century Satire

From Eng. miss, to fail, and Lat. engeo, to arrive. One who fails to arrive. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

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

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Synonym: Messenger Boy

Synonym: errand boy (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Messenger Boy

Specialty definitions using "messenger boy": JAMES. (references)

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Modern Usage: Messenger Boy

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I see he has resorted to sending his messenger boy. (Can't Buy Me Love; writing credit: Michael Swerdlick)

Movie/TV Titles

Messenger Boy (1931)

Only a Messenger Boy (1915)

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

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Modern Translations: Messenger Boy

Language Translations for "messenger boy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

laufbursche (errand boy, footboy, legman, runner), läufer (armature, bishop, carpet, crab, cursor, half, halfback, hurdler, racers, rotor, rug, runner, stretcher). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

小童 (boy, boy-servant, brat). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"わっぱ (boy, boy-servant, brat). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

essengermay oybay

   

Spanish

  

mensajero (carrier, courier, Mercury, messenger, office boy, runner). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

springpojke (devil, errand boy, errand-boy, messenger, office boy, page boy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Messenger Boy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-g-m-n-o-r-s-s-y"

-3 letters: messenger.

-4 letters: berseems, bogeymen, embosser, embryons, eryngoes, eyesores, greyness, moneyers, mongeese.

-5 letters: berseem, beseems, bogymen, boreens, bygones, embryon, embryos, emerges, engross, enrobes, eryngos, eyesome, eyesore, geneses, genomes, germens, geysers, groynes, gyrenes, moneyer, mongers, moreens, morgens, nemeses, obeyers, reneges, seemers, senores, sensory, serenes, sermons.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-g-m-n-o-r-s-s-y"
 

+1 letter: embryogeneses, embryogenesis.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Messenger Boy


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

4D 65 73 73 65 6E 67 65 72      42 6F 79

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

    

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

01001101 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000010 01101111 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#101 &#110 &#103 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0065 0073 0073 0065 006E 0067 0065 0072      0042 006F 0079

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

4771858571807371842368191

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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