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PLUFF

Definitions: PLUFF

PLUFF

Noun

1. A hairdresser's powder puff; also, the act of using it.

2. A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball; a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder.

Transitive verb

1. To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Name Usage Frequency: PLUFF

The following table summarizes the usage of "PLUFF" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
PluffLast name13054,883
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: PLUFF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-f-l-p-u"

-1 letter: luff, puff.

-2 letters: flu, pul.

-3 letters: up.

 Words containing the letters "f-f-l-p-u"
 

+2 letters: puffily.

 

+3 letters: puffball.

 

+4 letters: puffballs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PLUFF


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

50 4C 55 46 46

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)

01010000 01001100 01010101 01000110 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#76 &#85 &#70 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004C 0055 0046 0046

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

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

5046554040

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Names: Frequency
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography 		5. Bibliography


  

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