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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Pleased as Punch Greatly delighted. Our old friend Punch is always singing with self-satisfaction in all his naughty ways, and his evident "pleasure" is contageous to the beholders. "You could skip over to Europe whenever you liked; mamma would be pleased as Punch."- R. Grant. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pleasure | Adjective: pleased; not sorry; glad, gladsome; pleased as Punch. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "PLEASED AS PUNCH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | igen elégedett, hízik a mája. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | easedplay asay unchpay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-h-l-n-p-p-s-s-u" | |
-3 letters: applesauces. | |
-4 letters: applesauce, encapsuled, encapsules, esplanades, handclasps, headspaces, landscapes, launchpads, pleasances, spleuchans, unappeased. | |
-5 letters: acalephes, applauses, cheapness, encapsule, encephala, enclasped, escalades, escapades, esplanade, eulachans, handclasp, headspace, landscape, launchpad, nucleases, peduncles, penuchles, pleasance, punchless, sandpeeps, saucepans, scalepans, schedules, schlepped, seaplanes, seneschal, spalpeens, spanceled, spleuchan, unclasped, unleashed, unleashes, unpleased. | |
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