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NOW-NOW

Specialty Definition: NOW-NOW

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Literature

Now-now Old Anthony Now-now. An itinerant fiddler, meant for Anthony Munday, the dramatist who wrote City Pageants. (Chettle: Kindhart's Dream, 1592.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Usage: NOW-NOW

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Screenplays

I mean, last year Elizabeth now-now this kid. What-what-what-what is it? (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

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

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Modern Translation: NOW-NOW

Language Translations for "NOW-NOW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

ナイル鰐 (being interested only in the here and now without any regard for the future, knapsack, knuckle, knuckle ball, knuckle four, knuckle part, NASA, NASA fashion, NASDAQ, NASTAR ski, national, national ad, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, national atlas, national bank, national brand, National Center of Trade Unions, national chain, national character, national consensus, national convention, national costume, national game, national holiday, national identity, national interest, National League, national minimum, national park, national prestige, national product, national project, national security, National Standard Race ski, National Trust, nationalism, nationalist, nationality, nationalization, Nationalsozialist, NATO, Natrium lamp, natural, natural cheese, natural color, natural foods, natural grip, natural science, natural selection, natural turn, natural wave, naturalism, naturalist, naturalistic, naturalization, naturalize, Nazi, Nazism, Nile crocodile, nine, no, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, nothing, now, now-now-ism, nugget, nut, nuts, nylon, sodium, trendy, up-to-date). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ナウナウイズ (being interested only in the here and now without any regard for the future, now-now-ism). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ow-nownay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NOW-NOW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "n-n-o-o-w-w"

-2 letters: noon.

-3 letters: noo, now, own, won, woo, wow.

-4 letters: no, on, ow, wo.

 Words containing the letters "n-n-o-o-w-w"
 

+2 letters: downtown.

 

+3 letters: downtowns.

 

+4 letters: downtowner, townswoman, townswomen.

 

+5 letters: downtowners, snowplowing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NOW-NOW


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

4E 4F 57 2D 4E 4F 57

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

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

01001110 01001111 01010111 00101101 01001110 01001111 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#79 &#87 &#45 &#78 &#79 &#87

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 004F 0057 002D 004E 004F 0057

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

48495715484957

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INDEX

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


  

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