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STRULDBRUGS

Date "STRULDBRUGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)


Specialty Definition: STRULDBRUGS

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Literature

Struldbrugs Wretched inhabitants of Luggnagg, an imaginary island a hundred leagues south-east of Japan. These human beings have the privilege of eternal life without those of immortal vigour, strength, and intellect. (Swift Gulliver's Travels.)
"Many persons think that the picture of the Stulbrugs (sic) was intended to wean us from a love of life but I am certain that the $$$ never had any such thing in view."- Palcy's Natural Theology (Lord Brougham's note $$$ p. 140). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: STRULDBRUGS

Specialty definitions using "STRULDBRUGS": Luggnagg. (references)

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Use in Literature: STRULDBRUGS

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Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

One day in much good company I was asked by a person of quality, whether I had seen any of their Struldbrugs, or Immortals.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: STRULDBRUGS

"STRULDBRUGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STRULDBRUGS" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: STRULDBRUGS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-g-l-r-r-s-s-t-u-u"

-4 letters: bulgurs.

-5 letters: blurts, bulgur, bursts, slurbs, tussur.

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

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Alternative Orthography: STRULDBRUGS


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

53 54 52 55 4C 44 42 52 55 47 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)

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

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

01010011 01010100 01010010 01010101 01001100 01000100 01000010 01010010 01010101 01000111 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#82 &#85 &#76 &#68 &#66 &#82 &#85 &#71 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0052 0055 004C 0044 0042 0052 0055 0047 0053

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

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

5354525546383652554153

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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