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Literature | Soapy Sam Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, and afterwards of Winchester. (1805-1873.) It is somewhat remarkable that the floral decorations above the stall of the bishop and of the principal of Cuddesdon, were S. O. A. P. (the initials of ~~~S Sam ~~~O Oxon and ~~~A Alfred ~~~P Pott. When Samuel Wilberforce went to inspect the building he was dismayed at seeing his sobriquet thus perpetuated. Someone asking the bishop why he was so called, the bishop replied, "Because I am often in hot water, and always come out with clean hands." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: SOAPY SAM |
| Specialty definitions using "SOAPY SAM": Oleaginous. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-m-o-p-s-s-y" | |
-2 letters: samosa. | |
-3 letters: amass, assay, massa, massy, mayas, mayos, mossy, omasa, psoas, samps, soaps, soapy, somas, soyas, spams, spasm, spays, sysop. | |
-4 letters: amas, amps, asps, maps, mass, maya, mayo, mays, moas, mops, mopy, moss, ossa, pams, pass, pays, poms, posy, pyas, samp, saps, says, soap, soma, sops, soya, soys, spam, spas, spay, yams, yaps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-m-o-p-s-s-y" | |
+3 letters: amyloplasts, hyaloplasms, mycoplasmas. | |
+4 letters: psychodramas, synaptosomal. | |
+5 letters: apocalyptisms, spasmodically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4F 41 50 59 53 41 4D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001111 01000001 01010000 01011001 00100000 01010011 01000001 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S O A P Y   S A M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004F 0041 0050 0059 0053 0041 004D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53493550592533547 |
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