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DOGWASH

Specialty Definition: DOGWASH

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Dogwash /dog'wosh/ [From a quip in the `urgency' field of a very optional software change request, ca. 1982. It was something like "Urgency: Wash your dog first".] 1. n. A project of minimal priority, undertaken as an escape from more serious work. 2. v. To engage in such a project. Many games and much freeware get written this way. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: DOGWASH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-g-h-o-s-w"

-1 letter: shadow.

-2 letters: dagos, dhows, goads, gowds, woads.

-3 letters: ados, dago, dags, dahs, dash, daws, dhow, dogs, dows, gads, gash, goad, goas, gods, gosh, gowd, hags, haws, hods, hogs, hows, sago, shad, shag, shaw, shod, shog, show, soda, swag, wads, wags, wash, whoa, woad, wogs.

-4 letters: ado, ads, ago, ash, dag, dah, daw, dog, dos.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-g-h-o-s-w"
 

+2 letters: shadowing, watchdogs.

 

+3 letters: dogwatches.

 

+4 letters: beshadowing, shadowgraph.

 

+5 letters: shadowboxing, shadowgraphs, shadowgraphy.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DOGWASH


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

44 4F 47 57 41 53 48

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 01001111 01000111 01010111 01000001 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#71 &#87 &#65 &#83 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0047 0057 0041 0053 0048

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

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

38494157355342

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