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Date "PANURGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
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Literature | Panurge (2 syl.). A companion of Pantagruel's, not unlike our Rochester and Buckingham in the reign of the mutton-eating king. Panurge was a desperate rake, was always in debt, had a dodge for every scheme, knew everything and something more, was a boon companion of the mirthfullest temper and most licentious bias; but was timid of danger, and a desperate coward. He enters upon ten thousand adventures for the solution of this knotty point. "Whether or not he ought to marry?" and although every response is in the negative, disputes the ostensible meaning, and stoutly maintains that no means yes. (Greek for factotum.) (Rabelais.) Panurge, probably meant for Calvin, though some think it is Cardinal Lorraine. He is a licentious, intemperate libertine, a coward and knave. Of course, the satire points to the celibacy of the clergy. "Sam Slick is the thoroughbred Yankee, bold, cunning, and, above all, a merchant. In short, he is a sort of Republican Panurge."- Globe. As Panurge asked if he should marry. Asking advice merely to contradict the giver of it. Panurge asked Pantagruel' whether he advised him to marry, "Yes," said Pantagruel. When Panurge urged some strong objection, "Then don't marry," said Pantagruel; to which the favourite replied, "His whole heart was bent on so doing." "Marry then, by all means," said the prince, but Panurge again found some insuperable barrier. And so they went on; every time Pantagruel said "Yea," new reasons were found against this advice; and every time he said "Nay," reasons no less cogent were discovered for the affirmative. (Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk. iii. 9.) Besides Pantagruel', Panurge consulted lots, dreams, a sibyl, a deaf and dumb man, the old poet Rominagrobis, the chiromancer Herr Trippa, the theologian Hippothadée, the physician Rondibilis, the philosopher Trouillogan, the court fool Triboulet, and, lastly, the Oracle of the Holy Bottle. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: PANURGE |
| Specialty definitions using "PANURGE": Bacbuc ♦ Hippothadee ♦ Lawsuits ♦ Oracle of the Holy Bottle, Bacbuc ♦ Rodilardus. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Les Moutons de Panurge (1960) Panurge (1932) | |
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| 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 |
panurge | 4 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-n-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: repugn. | |
-2 letters: anger, argue, arpen, auger, gaper, genua, grape, pager, pareu, parge, prang, prune, purge, range, regna, rugae, unpeg. | |
-3 letters: ager, ague, aper, earn, gaen, gane, gape, gaun, gaur, gear, genu, gnar, gran, grue, guan, guar, nape, neap, near, page, pane, pang, pare, peag, pean, pear, prau, puna, pung, pure, rage, rang, rape. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-n-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: gunpaper, speargun. | |
+2 letters: gunpapers, paupering, repugnant, spearguns, upbearing, uprearing, uptearing. | |
+3 letters: depurating, parqueting, persuading, pleasuring, repugnance, repugnancy, superagent, supergiant, unpregnant, upreaching. | |
+4 letters: enrapturing, expurgating, expurgation, outcapering, pauperizing, pelargonium, pneumograph, recapturing, repudiating, repugnances, repugnantly, superadding, superagency, superagents, supergiants, underpaying, ungraspable, upgathering, uppercasing. | |
+5 letters: expurgations, necrophagous, outpreaching, outspreading, paralanguage, pasteurising, pasteurizing, pelargoniums, perpetuating, pneumographs, preinaugural, premeasuring, recuperating, repopulating, repugnancies, repurchasing, spermagonium, superheating, superorganic, underlapping, underplaying, unexpurgated, unprogrammed, vituperating. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 4E 55 52 47 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -. ..- .-. --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000001 01001110 01010101 01010010 01000111 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A N U R G E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 004E 0055 0052 0047 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50354855524139 |
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