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Definition: PUSS IN THE CORNER |
PUSS IN THE CORNER1. A game in which all the players but one occupy corners of a room, or certain goals in the open air, and exchange places, the one without a corner endeavoring to get a corner while it is vacant, leaving some other without one. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interchange | Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner,Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate; requite. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "PUSS IN THE CORNER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | komámasszony hol az olló, háttérből ható befolyás. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | usspay inay ethay ornercay.(various references) | |
Turkish | köşe kapmaca oyunu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-n-n-o-p-r-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: countersnipers. | |
-2 letters: countersniper, incorruptness. | |
-3 letters: counterspies, intercourses, persecutions, repercussion. | |
-4 letters: corruptness, currentness, intercessor, intercourse, interposers, nonreceipts, persecution, persecutors, prehensions, pretensions, putrescines, rechristens, rectorships, rencounters, rhinestones, scrutineers, southerners, spirochetes, supertonics. | |
-5 letters: censorship, centurions, choristers, coinsurers, consenters, continuers, copresents, corsetries, courtesies, courtships, encounters, eutrophies, herstories, incoherent, inspectors, intercrops, intercross, interposer, interposes, intrenches, necropsies, nephrotics, nonesuches, nonreceipt, nourishers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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