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BAFFLER

Definition: BAFFLER

BAFFLER

Noun

1. One who, or that which, baffles.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: BAFFLER

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A partition in a furnace so placed as to aid the convection of heat; abaffle plate. (references)

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

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Commercial Usage: BAFFLER

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bible Puzzle Rama: Bible Baffler (reference)

  • Jesus' Life Crosswords (Bible Baffler Series) (reference)

  • The Baffler (reference)

  • The Baffler #8: The Cultural Miracle (The Baffler , No 8) (reference)

  • The Baffler #9: The Workplace (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BAFFLER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

baffler cobra

15

baffler

13

baffler bug

7

squirrel baffler

2

baffler cobra king

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BAFFLER

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

Albanian

  

Ai Që Huton. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Преграда, Заглушител. (various references)

   

Danish

  

reguleringsspjæld. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

regelplaat. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vaimennin (attenuator, damper, silencer). (various references)

   

French

  

régulateur. (various references)

   

German

  

Verwunderer, der, Unterbrecher (breaker, contact breaker, interrupter, switch, timer, trembler), Regler (adjuster, automatic controller, control, controller, dimmer, fuel pump meter, fuel pump metre, governor, light regulator, modulator, pump governor, regulator, rheostat, ruler, stabilizer, timing governor), Regeleinrichtung (governing system). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ρυθμιστής (adjuster, adjusting device, check, dispatcher, gauge, governor, modulator, regulating device, regulator, throttle, traffic controller), Αντανακλαστικό έλασμα. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Fényelnyelõ Lemez. (various references)

   

Italian

  

regolatore (controlling, damper, governor, loop, regulator, ruler, sprocket, throttle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

afflerbay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

refletor (floodlight, headlight, reflector, reverberator, tent pole), divisória (bulkhead, divide, division, partition), aquele que engana. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

amãgitor (cheating, deceiver, deceptive, deluder, delusive, mendacious, seducer, seducing, specious). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отражатель (deflector, ejector, reflector, rejector, reverberator). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prigušivač (absorber, choke, damper, muffler, silencer). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

regulador (buffer, check, choke, controller, governor, guv, regulator, regulatory, throttle), reflector (catoptric telescope, dish, floodlight, mirror, reflecting telescope, reflector, reflector lens, reflector-mirror, reflex reflector, rejector, repeller, searchlight, specular reflector, spotlight), deflector (adjustable shield, baffle, baffle plate, blast deflector, bumper, canopy, cover, cut slice, deflector, deflector chute, delivery, fishtail, flap, furrow slice, gob deflector, gob interceptor, gob knocker, hoe shield, hood, open shield, outlet, protective tunnel, rear flap, safety shield, scoop, shield, skimmer slice, skimmer split, splah plate, splash plate, spoiler, spray plate, tent shield, turning vane). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

regleringsspjäll, förbryllare. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

глушитель (baffle, damper, muffler, silencer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BAFFLER

Derivations

Words beginning with "BAFFLER": bafflers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BAFFLER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bafel, baffe, baffel, bafler, beffle, beffler, Biflora, buffler, bufler, yaffle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BAFFLER"

Words rhyming with "BAFFLER" (pronounced 'Baf"fler'): Maffler, Raffler, Riffler, Rifler, Ruffler, Scuffler, Shaffler, snuffler, stifler, trifler, Whiffler. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BAFFLER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-f-l-r"

-1 letter: baffle, fabler, farfel, raffle.

-2 letters: abler, baler, blare, blear, fable, farle, feral, flare.

-3 letters: able, alef, baff, bale, bare, barf, bear, blae, brae, earl, fare, farl, feal, fear, flab, flea, frae, leaf, lear, raff, rale, real.

-4 letters: aff, alb, ale, arb, are, arf, bal, bar, bel, bra, ear, eff, elf, era, far, fer, lab, lar, lea, reb, ref.

-5 letters: ab, ae, al, ar, ba, be, ef, el, er, fa, la, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-f-l-r"
 

+1 letter: bafflers.

 

+3 letters: affirmable, affordable, sufferable, sufferably.

 

+4 letters: forfeitable, trafficable.

 

+5 letters: buffaloberry, flabelliform, insufferable, insufferably, shuffleboard, unaffordable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BAFFLER


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

42 41 46 46 4C 45 52

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)

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

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

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

01000010 01000001 01000110 01000110 01001100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#70 &#70 &#76 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0046 0046 004C 0045 0052

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

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

36354040463952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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