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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Poor Jack or ~~~John John (A). Dried hake. We have "john-dory," a "jack" (pike), a "jack shark," and a "jack of Dover." Probably the word Jack is a mere play on the word "Hake," and John a substitute for Jack. " 'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-john."- Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, i. 1. We have a similar perversion in the school-boy proof that a pigeon-pie is a fish-pie. A pigeon-pie is a pie-john, and a pie-john is a jack-pie, and a jack-pie is a fish-pie. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: POOR JACK |
| Specialty definitions using "POOR JACK": Bow-window in Front ♦ Guineapig ♦ Mother Carey's Chickens. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-j-k-o-o-p-r" | |
-3 letters: copra, croak, crook, jocko, karoo, pooka. | |
-4 letters: arco, capo, cark, carp, cook, coop, cork, crap, crop, jack, jock, okra, orca, pack, park, pock, poco, poor, pork, prao, proa, rack, rock, rook. | |
-5 letters: arc, ark, cap, car, coo, cop, cor, jar, koa, kop, kor, oak, oar, oca, oka, ora, orc, pac, par, pro, raj. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 4F 52 4A 41 43 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01001111 01010010 00100000 01001010 01000001 01000011 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O O R   J A C K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 004F 0052 004A 0041 0043 004B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50494952244353745 |
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