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NUNCHION

Definition: NUNCHION

NUNCHION

Intransitive verb

1. A portion of food taken at or after noon, usually between full meals; a luncheon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "NUNCHION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references)

Etymology: Nunchion \Nun"chion\, noun. [from Old English expression nonechenche, for noneschenche, prop., noon drink; none noon schenchen, schenken, skinken, to pour, Anglo-Saxon scencan. See Noon, and Skink, intransitive verb.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: NUNCHION

English words defined with "NUNCHION": Noonshun. (references)

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Rhyming with "NUNCHION"

Words rhyming with "NUNCHION" (pronounced 'Nun"chion'): Falchion, Fauchion, Faulchion, stanchion. (additional references)

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Anagrams: NUNCHION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-i-n-n-n-o-u"

-1 letter: inconnu.

-2 letters: nuncio.

-3 letters: chino, conin, ninon, union.

-4 letters: chin, chon, cion, coin, coni, conn, huic, icon, inch, noun, ouch, unci, unco.

-5 letters: chi, con, hic, hin, hon, hun, ich, inn, ion, noh, nun.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-i-n-n-n-o-u"
 

+3 letters: unanchoring.

 

+4 letters: truncheoning.

 

+5 letters: nonchauvinist.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NUNCHION


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

4E 55 4E 43 48 49 4F 4E

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001110 01010101 01001110 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0055 004E 0043 0048 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

4855483742434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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