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Definition: UNTRUSS |
UNTRUSSNoun1. Alt. of Untrusser Transitive verb1. To loose from a truss, or as from a truss; to untie or unfasten; to let out; to undress. |
Date "UNTRUSS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | UNTRUSS. To untruss a point; to let down one's breeches in order to ease one's self. Breeches were formerly tied with points, which till lately were distributed to the boys every Whit Monday by the churchwardens of most of the parishes in London, under th. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "UNTRUSS": untrussed, untrusses, untrussing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "n-r-s-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: tussur. | |
-2 letters: runts, rusts, stuns, truss, turns. | |
-3 letters: nuts, runs, runt, rust, ruts, stun, suns, tuns, turn, urns, urus. | |
-4 letters: nus, nut, run, rut, sun, tun, uns, urn, uts. | |
-5 letters: nu, un, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-r-s-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: sunburst. | |
+2 letters: strenuous, sunbursts, sunstruck, surmounts, susurrant, unitrusts, untrussed, untrusses. | |
+3 letters: menstruums, untrussing. | |
+4 letters: countersues, hurtfulness, industrious, nasturtiums, pursuivants, ruthfulness, strenuously, subindustry, subroutines, susurration, ultrasounds, unsaturates, usurpations. | |
+5 letters: brontosaurus, countersuits, disjunctures, fruitfulness, groundbursts, jurisconsult, lustrousness, outsourcings, suburbanites, supernatures, suppurations, susurrations, tortuousness, transpicuous, trustfulness, truthfulness, understudies, underthrusts, virtuousness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 4E 54 52 55 53 53 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. - .-. ..- ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01001110 01010100 01010010 01010101 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U N T R U S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 004E 0054 0052 0055 0053 0053 |
| 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)55485452555353 |
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