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Definition: SPRUG |
SPRUGTransitive verb1. To make smart. |
Etymology: Sprug \Sprug\, transitive verb. [Compare to Prov. English sprug up to dress neatly, sprag to prop, adjective, lively.]. (Websters 1913) |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SPRUG": sprugs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ug": bug, Mug, Shug, SUG. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: pugs, purs, rugs, spur. | |
-2 letters: pug, pur, pus, rug, sup, ups. | |
-3 letters: up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: groups, grumps, purges, sprugs, sprung, spurge. | |
+2 letters: grampus, gulpers, pugrees, purgers, pursing, repugns, splurge, splurgy, spurges, upgirds, upgrows, upsurge. | |
+3 letters: earplugs, graupels, groupers, groupies, grownups, grumpish, guipures, gumdrops, guruship, gyplures, ingroups, longspur, pagurids, perusing, piraguas, pirogues, plaguers, pluggers, plungers, postdrug, prurigos, pugarees, puggrees, puggries, pugmarks, purgings, pursuing, regroups, resprung, slurping, speargun, splurged, splurger, splurges, sprucing, spurgall, spurning, spurring, spurting, subgraph, subgroup, superego, supering, unsprung, upgrades, uprights, uprising, upsprang, upspring, upsprung, upsurged, upsurges, usurping. | |
| 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 50 52 55 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .--. .-. ..- --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010000 01010010 01010101 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S P R U G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0050 0052 0055 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)5350525541 |
| 1. Definition 2. Derivations 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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