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DEAR-BOUGHT

Definition: DEAR-BOUGHT

DEAR-BOUGHT

Adjective

1. Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DEAR-BOUGHT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)

Modern Translations: DEAR-BOUGHT

Language Translations for "DEAR-BOUGHT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

që është marrë shtrënjtë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

скъпо купен. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

drágán szerzett. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ear-boughtday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

dificilmente obtido. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

дорого доставшийся. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

costoso (costly, dear, expensive, rich). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

куплений дорогою ціною. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DEAR-BOUGHT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-h-o-r-t-u"

-2 letters: authored, daughter, goatherd, obdurate, outheard, outraged, ragouted, rebought, taboured.

-3 letters: aborted, abought, bearhug, begorah, borated, boughed, breadth, brought, doubter, draught, drought, garoted, grouted, hagrode, obtrude, oughted, outbrag, outbred, outdare, outdrag, outhear, outrage, outread, readout, redoubt, roughed, tabored, toughed, tougher.

-4 letters: aerugo, arbute, argued, author, autoed, badger, baguet, barged, bathed, bather, bedrug, bertha, boated, boater, bodega, borage, borate, bother, bought, breath, brogue, bruted, budger, budget, dauber, dearth, debtor, dehort, detour, dogear, dorbug, dotage, dought, dourah, drogue, drouth, garbed, garote, gather, gherao, gourde, grated, hagbut, hatred, hotbed, orated, orgeat, outage, outbeg, ragout, rebato, redbug, redout, rogued, rouged, routed, rubato, rugate, tabour, tabued, thoued, thread, togaed, toured, trough, trudge.

-5 letters: abhor, abode, abort, about, adobe, adore, ardeb, argot, argue, auger, aught, badge, barde, bared, barge, bated, bathe, beard, beaut, begat, begot, berth, board, boart, bohea, bored, bough, bourg, bread, broad, broth, brugh, brute, budge, buret, burgh, buteo, dater, daube, death, debar, debug, debut, derat, dobra, doeth, doter, doubt, dough, doura, earth, ergot, erugo, garth, gated, gator, gerah, ghaut, godet, gored, gourd, grade, grate, great, groat, grout, guard, hared, hated, hater, haute, heard, heart, hoard, horde, huger, oared, oater, obeah, orate, orbed, oread, other, ought, outed, outer, outre, raged, rated, rathe, rebut, redub, rehab, retag, robed, rogue, rouge, rough, route, routh, rugae, taber, tabor, tardo, tared, targe, tegua, terga, teugh, throb, throe, togae, togue, torah, tough, trade, tread, trode, trued, tubae, tubed, tuber, turbo, urate, uredo, urged.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-g-h-o-r-t-u"
 

+2 letters: turbocharged.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DEAR-BOUGHT


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

44 45 41 52 2D 42 4F 55 47 48 54

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

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

01000100 01000101 01000001 01010010 00101101 01000010 01001111 01010101 01000111 01001000 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#45 &#66 &#79 &#85 &#71 &#72 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0041 0052 002D 0042 004F 0055 0047 0048 0054

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

3839355215364955414254

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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