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THICKSKIN

Definition: THICKSKIN

THICKSKIN

Noun

1. A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "THICKSKIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)


Modern Translations: THICKSKIN

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

Albanian

  

lëkurëtrashë (thick-skinned). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لا مبالاة (apathy, carelessness, disinterest, disinterestedness, easiness, impassivity, indifference, insouciance, nonchalance, phlegm, unconcern), ‏عديم إكتراث. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ickskinthay

   

Russian 

  

толстокожий (callous, pachydermatous, thickskinned, thick-skinned). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

debele kože. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: THICKSKIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-i-i-k-k-n-s-t"

-2 letters: chitins.

-3 letters: chinks, chints, chitin, kitsch, schtik, shtick, snitch, thicks, thinks.

-4 letters: chink, chins, chits, hicks, hints, intis, kicks, kinks, kiths, knish, knits, nicks, shtik, skink, skint, snick, stich, stick, stink, thick, think, thins, ticks, tikis.

-5 letters: chin, chis, chit, cist, hick, hins, hint, hisn, hist, hits, ichs, inch, inks, inti, itch, khis, kick.

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

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Alternative Orthography: THICKSKIN


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

54 48 49 43 4B 53 4B 49 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)

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