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UNDERFONG

Definition: UNDERFONG

UNDERFONG

Transitive verb

1. To sustain; to support; to guard.

2. To insnare; to circumvent.

3. To undertake; to take in hand; to receive.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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

Anagrams: UNDERFONG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-g-n-n-o-r-u"
	-1 letter: unforged.
	-2 letters: dungeon, fenuron, founder, guerdon, nondrug, refound, undergo.
	-3 letters: drogue, dunner, enduro, fonder, fondue, forged, funned, funner, gerund, gourde, ground, guenon, gunned, gunner, neuron, nudger, refund, rogued, rouged, undoer, undone, unfond.
	-4 letters: defog, donne, drone, erugo, fondu, forge, found, frond, fudge, fungo, genro, gofer, gonef, goner, gored, gourd, nuder, nudge, redon, rogue, rouen.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-f-g-n-n-o-r-u"
	+1 letter: foundering, refounding.
	+2 letters: floundering, overfunding.
	+4 letters: foregrounding.
	+5 letters: dumbfoundering.
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.

Alternative Orthography: UNDERFONG

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

55 4E 44 45 52 46 4F 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..- -. -.. . .-. ..-. --- -. --.

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

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

01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 01000110 01001111 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#70 &#79 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0044 0045 0052 0046 004F 004E 0047

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

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

554838395240494841

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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