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Bewhiskered

Definition: Bewhiskered

Bewhiskered

Adjective

1. Having hair on the cheeks and chin.

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

Date "bewhiskered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)

 

Synonyms: Bewhiskered

Synonyms: barbate (adj), bearded (adj), whiskered (adj), whiskery (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Bewhiskered

"Bewhiskered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bewhiskered" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bewhiskered

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

French

  

barbu (bearded, bearded man). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

berkumis, berjanggut (bearded), berjambang. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ewhiskeredbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bewhiskered

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-h-i-k-r-s-w"

-2 letters: beshrewed, whiskered.

-3 letters: shrewdie, shrieked, skewered.

-4 letters: beshrew, brisked, derbies, heeders, heredes, resewed, seedier, sewered, sheered, shirked, shrewed, weeders, weedier, whisked, whisker.

-5 letters: bedews, beside, biders, bikers, bredes, breeds, breeks, brewed, brewis, brides, debris, desire, dewier, dikers, dweebs, eiders, heders, heeder, heired, herbed, hewers, hiders, hikers, kerbed, rebids, reeked, reseed, reseek, reside, reweds, risked.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bewhiskered


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

42 65 77 68 69 73 6B 65 72 65 64

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 01100101 01110111 01101000 01101001 01110011 01101011 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#119 &#104 &#105 &#115 &#107 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0077 0068 0069 0073 006B 0065 0072 0065 0064

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

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

3671897475857771847170

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INDEX

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


  

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