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Definition: SOFTLING |
SOFTLINGNoun1. A soft, effeminate person; a voluptuary. |
Note: Softling \Soft"ling\, noun. soft, effeminate person; voluptuary.. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Weakness | Softling, weakling; infant; youth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Words rhyming with "SOFTLING" (pronounced 'Soft"ling'): Airling, Bantling, Bardling, Birdling, Cageling, Catling, Chickling, Courtling, Cringeling, Cutling, Dearling, Decolling, Dwarfling, Fiveling, fledgeling, Flockling, Fopling, foundling, Fourling, Furzeling, Gesling, Gnatling, gosling, groundling, Homeling, Lordling, Manling, Meazling, Merling, Mestling, Monthling, Moonling, Morling, Mortling, Nerfling, Nursling, Oakling, Popeling, Porkling, Prickling, Princeling, Proudling, Punkling, Rashling, Reckling, Reedling, ridgeling, Rockling, sapling, Scabling. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-l-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: lofting, tiglons. | |
-2 letters: flings, flints, flongs, glints, gonifs, ingots, losing, soling, stingo, tiglon, tigons, toling, tonsil. | |
-3 letters: filos, finos, fling, flint, flits, flogs, flong, foils, foins, foist, fonts, gifts, gilts, glint, glost, golfs, gonif, infos, ingot, lifts, lingo, lings, linos, lints, lions, lofts, loins, longs, noils, sling, sting, tigon, tings, toils, tongs. | |
-4 letters: figs. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-l-n-o-s-t" | |
+2 letters: fosterling. | |
+3 letters: fosterlings, shoplifting, stagflation, sulfonating. | |
+4 letters: footslogging, forestalling, fulgurations, stagflations. | |
+5 letters: deflagrations, flagellations, flowchartings, flugelhornist, fortnightlies, genuflections, suffocatingly, uglifications, waterfowlings. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4F 46 54 4C 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- ..-. - .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001111 01000110 01010100 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S O F T L I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004F 0046 0054 004C 0049 004E 0047 |
| 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)5349405446434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Rhymes 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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