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BLURGLE

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Blurgle /bler'gl/ n. [UK] Spoken metasyntactic variable, to indicate some text that is obvious from context, or which is already known. If several words are to be replaced, blurgle may well be doubled or tripled. "To look for something in several files use `grep string blurgle blurgle'." In each case, "blurgle blurgle" would be understood to be replaced by the file you wished to search. Compare mumble, sense 7. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: BLURGLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: bugler, bulger, burgle.

-2 letters: bluer, bugle, bulge, gluer, gruel, luger, ruble.

-3 letters: bell, berg, blue, blur, bull, burg, burl, glue, grub, grue, gull, lube, luge, lure, rube, rule, urge.

-4 letters: beg, bel, bug, bur, ell, erg, gel, gul, leg, leu, lug, reb, reg, rub, rue, rug, urb.

-5 letters: be, el, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-g-l-l-r-u"
 

+3 letters: bulldogger.

 

+4 letters: bulldoggers, bullfighter, bullyragged, umbrellaing.

 

+5 letters: blunderingly, blusteringly, bullfighters, curveballing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BLURGLE


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

42 4C 55 52 47 4C 45

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 01001100 01010101 01010010 01000111 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#85 &#82 &#71 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0055 0052 0047 004C 0045

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

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

36465552414639

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