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Definition: DEAR-BOUGHT |
DEAR-BOUGHTAdjective1. Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience. |
Date "DEAR-BOUGHT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
| 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. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 41 52 2D 42 4F 55 47 48 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01000001 01010010 00101101 01000010 01001111 01010101 01000111 01001000 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E A R - B O U G H T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 0041 0052 002D 0042 004F 0055 0047 0048 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3839355215364955414254 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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