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Literature | Porcus The Latins call me "porcus." A sly reproof to anyone boasting, showing off, or trying to make himself appear greater than he is. The fable says that a wolf was going to devour a pig, when the pig observed that it was Friday, and no good Catholic would eat meat on a Friday. Going on together, the wolf said to the pig, "They seem to call you by many names." "Yes," said the pig, "I am called swine, grunter, hog, and I know not what besides. The Latins call me porcus. " "Porpus, do they?" said the wolf, making an intentional blunder. "Well, porpoise is a fish, and we may eat fish on a Friday." So saying, he devoured him without another word." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Date "PORCUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1912. (references) |
"PORCUS" is a common misspelling or typo for: Porous, Process. |
Crosswords: PORCUS |
| English words defined with "PORCUS": Pigfoot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PORCUS": Dominie Sampson ♦ hog ♦ Porcus Literarum. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PORCUS": Porpoise. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PORCUS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (hog, pig, porcupine, pork, swine, tame swine). |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is Porcus Rockefelleri. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance. |
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Expressions using "PORCUS": Porcus babirussa ♦ Scorpaena porcus ♦ Sus or Porcus babirussa. Additional references. | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: corpus, croups. | |
| Words within the letters "c-o-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: corps, coups, crops, croup, pours, roups, scour. | |
-2 letters: cops, cors, coup, crop, crus, cups, curs, cusp, opus, orcs, ours, pour, pros, purs, rocs, roup, scop, scup, soup, sour, spur. | |
-3 letters: cop, cor, cos, cup, cur, ops, orc, ors, our, pro, pur, pus, roc, sop, sou, sup, upo, ups. | |
-4 letters: op, or, os, so, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-o-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: croupes, cuprous, recoups. | |
+2 letters: acarpous, cockspur, corpuses, corrupts, couplers, coverups, croupous, cupreous, cuspidor, outcrops, pouncers, precious, prefocus, procures, produces, products, sculptor, sunporch, supercop, uroscopy. | |
+3 letters: cockspurs, composure, computers, corpuscle, courtship, crapulous, croupiers, croupiest, cupboards, cuspidors, occupiers, opercules, outcapers, outprices, precursor, proconsul, procurals, procurers, producers, prosecute, rapacious, recouples, sculptors, subtropic, supercoil, supercool, supercops, superjock. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 52 43 55 53 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .-. -.-. ..- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01010010 01000011 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O R C U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0052 0043 0055 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)504952375553 |
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