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Definition: MORMO |
MORMONoun1. A bugbear; false terror. |
Etymology: Mormo \Mor"mo\, noun. [from Greek expression mormw` hideous she-monster, bugbear.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Bug bear, bugaboo; scarecrow; hobgoblin; (demon); nightmare, Gorgon, mormo, ogre, Hurlothrumbo, raw head and bloody bones, fee-faw-fum, bete noire, enfant terrible. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Also, the name was used to signify a female vampire-like creature in stories told to Greek children by their nurses to keep them from misbehaving.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mormo."
Crosswords: MORMO |
| English words defined with "MORMO": Old lady. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MORMO" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (farcy, glanders, Pseudomonas mallei infection). |
Expression using "MORMO": Mormo maura. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mormo | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "MORMO": rumormonger, rumormongering, rumormongerings, rumormongers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "MORMO" (pronounced 'Mor"mo'): Atmo, Bayamo, Chromo, major-domo, Primo, Sixteenmo, Twelvemo, Twenty-fourmo. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "m-m-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: moor, room. | |
-2 letters: mom, moo, mor, rom. | |
-3 letters: mm, mo, om, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-m-o-o-r" | |
+2 letters: monomer, mudroom. | |
+3 letters: commoner, homeroom, micromho, monogerm, monogram, monomers, moronism, motordom, motorman, motormen, mudrooms, mushroom, nomogram, omniform, roommate, tommyrot, tomogram. | |
+4 letters: commodore, commoners, comonomer, groomsman, groomsmen, homerooms, immolator, macrocosm, majordomo, mesomorph, metronome, microcosm, microform, micromhos, micromole, microsome, microtome, monodrama, monograms, monomeric, monometer, monorhyme, monotreme, moronisms, motordoms, multiroom, mushrooms, nomograms, osmometer, osmometry, roommates, tommyrots, tomograms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 52 4D 4F |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .-. -- --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01010010 01001101 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O R M O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 0052 004D 004F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4749524749 |
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