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FURRFU

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Furrfu excl. [Usenet; written, only rarely spoken] Written-only equivalent of "Sheesh!"; it is, in fact, "sheesh" modified by rot13. Evolved in mid-1992 as a response to notably silly postings repeating urban myths on the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban, after some posters complained that "Sheesh!" as a response to newbies was being overused. See also FOAF. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: FURRFU

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: furfur.

Words within the letters "f-f-r-r-u-u"

-2 letters: ruff.

-3 letters: fur.

 Words containing the letters "f-f-r-r-u-u"
 

+2 letters: froufrou, furfural, furfuran, furfures.

 

+3 letters: froufrous, furfurals, furfurans.

 

+5 letters: fruitfuller.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FURRFU


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

46 55 52 52 46 55

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)

01000110 01010101 01010010 01010010 01000110 01010101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#85 &#82 &#82 &#70 &#85

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0055 0052 0052 0046 0055

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

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

405552524055

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