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PLUCKED PIGEON

Specialty Definition: PLUCKED PIGEON

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Plucked Pigeon (A). One fleeced out of his money; one plucked by a rook or sharper.
"There were no smart fellows whom fortune had troubled, ... no plucked pigeons or winged rooks, no disappointed speculators, no ruined miners."- Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak, c. xi. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: PLUCKED PIGEON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-g-i-k-l-n-o-p-p-u"

-3 letters: decoupling, leukopenic.

-4 letters: decupling, epilogued, euglenoid, pedogenic, unclipped, unpeopled, unpoliced.

-5 letters: cleeking, clopping, clouding, clupeoid, coupling, cupeling, decouple, duckling, dunelike, eloigned, epilogue, eupnoeic, geepound, genocide, lippened, nickeled, nucleoid, oppugned, opulence, peduncle, penciled, penuckle, peopling, plucking, popelike, pulicene, uncoiled, undocile, unlicked, unlocked, unpeople, unpicked, upcoiled.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PLUCKED PIGEON


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

50 4C 55 43 4B 45 44      50 49 47 45 4F 4E

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

    

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

01010000 01001100 01010101 01000011 01001011 01000101 01000100 00100000 01010000 01001001 01000111 01000101 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#76 &#85 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#80 &#73 &#71 &#69 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004C 0055 0043 004B 0045 0044      0050 0049 0047 0045 004F 004E

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

504655374539382504341394948

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