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MUMPING DAY

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Mumping Day St. Thomas's Day, December 21. A day on which the poor used to go about begging, or, as it was called, "going a-gooding," that is, getting gifts to procure good things for Christmas (mump, to beg).
In Warwickshire the term used was "going a-corning," i.e. getting gifts of corn. In Staffordshire the custom is spoken of simply as "a-gooding." (See Mumpers.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: MUMPING DAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-m-m-n-p-u-y"

-2 letters: dummying.

-3 letters: damming, damping, dumping, mumping, yauping.

-4 letters: auding, digamy, duping, impugn, magnum, maundy, maying, paying, paynim, umping, unpaid.

-5 letters: aping, dingy, dummy, dumpy, dunam, dungy, dying, gamin, gammy, gaudy, gimpy, gumma, gummy, imaum, mangy, maund, mingy, pandy, pigmy, pudgy, yamun.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MUMPING DAY


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

4D 55 4D 50 49 4E 47      44 41 59

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

    

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

01001101 01010101 01001101 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000100 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#85 &#77 &#80 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#68 &#65 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0055 004D 0050 0049 004E 0047      0044 0041 0059

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

475547504348412383559

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