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RAMPALLIAN

Definition: RAMPALLIAN

RAMPALLIAN

Noun

1. A mean wretch.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "RAMPALLIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Note: Rampallian \Ram*pal"lian\, noun. [Compare to ramp prostitute, or rabble.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: RAMPALLIAN

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Literature

Rampallian A term of contempt; probably it means a rampant or wanton woman; hence in A New Trick to Cheat the Devil (1639) we have this line: "And bold rampallian-like, swear and drink drunk."
"Away, you scullion! you rampallian! you fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe."- Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV., ii. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Translations: RAMPALLIAN

Language Translations for "rampallian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

ampallianray.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "RAMPALLIAN"

Words rhyming with "RAMPALLIAN" (pronounced 'Ram*pal"lian'): Salian. (additional references)

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Anagrams: RAMPALLIAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-l-l-m-n-p-r"

-2 letters: malarial, malarian, planaria.

-3 letters: armilla, laminal, laminar, malaria, manilla.

-4 letters: airman, amarna, animal, impala, lamina, manila, marina, marlin, napalm, narial, pallia, palmar, panama, parian, pillar, pirana, planar, primal.

-5 letters: alarm, amain, amnia, anima, apian, inarm, laari, lamia, lanai, lapin, liana, liman, limpa, llama, maill, malar, mania, maria, milpa, naira, pilar, plain, praam, prill, prima.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-l-l-m-n-p-r"
 

+3 letters: panoramically.

 

+4 letters: alphanumerical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RAMPALLIAN


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

52 41 4D 50 41 4C 4C 49 41 4E

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)

01010010 01000001 01001101 01010000 01000001 01001100 01001100 01001001 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0041 004D 0050 0041 004C 004C 0049 0041 004E

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

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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