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Barley-sugar

Definition: Barley-sugar

Barley-sugar

Noun

1. A brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "barley-sugar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references)

Synonym: Barley-sugar

Synonym: barley candy (n). (additional references)

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Expression: Barley-sugar

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "barley-sugar": barley-sugar-stick.

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

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Modern Translations: Barley-sugar

Language Translations for "barley-sugar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

大麦糖. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

árpacukor. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

보리 설탕. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arley-sugarbay.(various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

kẹo mạch lúa, đường lúa mạch. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Barley-sugar

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-g-l-r-r-s-u-y"

-3 letters: algebras, arguable, arguably, barrages, burglars, burglary, garblers, realgars, regulars.

-4 letters: alegars, algebra, arables, arguers, argyles, barleys, barrage, barrels, belugas, brayers, buglers, bulgers, burgers, burglar, burgles, burlers, burleys, bursary, bursera, garbler, garbles, laagers, realgar, regular, sayable, subalar, subarea, surgery, surreal, useably.

-5 letters: abaser, abuser, aglare, alegar, arable, argals, argles, arguer, argues, argyle, arrays, augers, bagels, balers, barely, barges, barley, barrel, barres, baryes, basely, belays, belgas, beluga, beryls, blares, blears, bleary, bluesy, blueys, blurry, brayer, bugler, bugles, bulger, bulges, burger, burgle, burler, burley, bursae, bursal, bursar, buyers, gables, galeas, garble, gayals, glares, gluers, graals, grayer, greasy, gruels, gyrase, laager, lagers, larger, larges, laurae, lauras, layers, lugers, lurers, rarely, rasure, rebars, rebury, rebuys, relays, rubles, rulers, sagely, salary, sauger, saurel, seabag, slayer, slurry, suable, suably, sugary, surely, surger, surrey, urares, urgers, usable, usably, yagers, yerbas.

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Alternative Orthography: Barley-sugar


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

42 61 72 6C 65 79 2D 73 75 67 61 72

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

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

01000010 01100001 01110010 01101100 01100101 01111001 00101101 01110011 01110101 01100111 01100001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#114 &#108 &#101 &#121 &#45 &#115 &#117 &#103 &#97 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0072 006C 0065 0079 002D 0073 0075 0067 0061 0072

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

366784787191158587736784

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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