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DESPEW

Specialty Definition: DESPEW

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Despew /d*-spyoo'/ v. [Usenet] To automatically generate a large amount of garbage to the net, esp. from an automated posting program gone wild. See ARMM. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: DESPEW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: spewed.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-p-s-w"

-1 letter: deeps, pedes, sewed, speed, swede, sweep, weeds, weeps.

-2 letters: deep, dees, dews, ewes, peds, peed, pees, pews, seed, seep, sped, spew, weds, weed, weep, wees.

-3 letters: dee, dew, eds, ewe, ped, pee, pes, pew, see, sew, wed, wee.

-4 letters: de, ed, es, pe, we.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-p-s-w"
 

+2 letters: pigweeds, pinweeds, snapweed, speedway, sumpweed.

 

+3 letters: hempweeds, knapweeds, pokeweeds, pondweeds, powderers, preshowed, prewashed, sideswipe, snapweeds, speedways, speedwell, spiderweb, sumpweeds, superwide, upswelled, whispered.

 

+4 letters: pewholders, powderless, sideswiped, sideswipes, speedwells, spiderwebs, widespread.

 

+5 letters: carpetweeds, crowstepped, newspapered, peckerwoods, shipwrecked, sleepwalked, spacewalked, woodpeckers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DESPEW


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

44 45 53 50 45 57

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)

01000100 01000101 01010011 01010000 01000101 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#83 &#80 &#69 &#87

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0053 0050 0045 0057

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

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

383953503957

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