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QUIDNUNKIS

Specialty Definition: QUIDNUNKIS

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Quidnunkis Monkey politicians. Gay has a fable called The Quidnunkis, to show that the death not even of the duke regent will cause any real gap in nature. A monkey who had ventured higher than his neighbours fell from his estate into the river below. For a few seconds the whole tribe stood panicstruck, but as soon as the stream carried off Master Pug, the monkeys went on with their gambols as if nothing had occurred.
"Ah, sir! you never saw the Ganges;
There dwell the nation of Quidnunkis
(So Monomotapa calls monkeys)."
Gay: Tales. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: QUIDNUNKIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-i-i-k-n-n-q-s-u-u"

-3 letters: nudniks, quinins.

-4 letters: kinins, nudnik, quinin, unkind, unsunk.

-5 letters: dinks, dunks, kinds, kinin, kudus, nidus, quids, quins, squid.

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

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Alternative Orthography: QUIDNUNKIS


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

51 55 49 44 4E 55 4E 4B 49 53

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)

--.-    ..-    ..    -..    -.    ..-    -.    -.-    ..    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010001 01010101 01001001 01000100 01001110 01010101 01001110 01001011 01001001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#81 &#85 &#73 &#68 &#78 &#85 &#78 &#75 &#73 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0051 0055 0049 0044 004E 0055 004E 004B 0049 0053

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

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

51554338485548454353

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