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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Grilf // n. Girlfriend. Like newsfroup and filk, a typo reincarnated as a new word. Seems to have originated sometime in 1992 on Usenet. [A friend tells me there was a Lloyd Biggle SF novel "Watchers Of The Dark", in which alien species after species goes insane and begins to chant "Grilf! Grilf!". A human detective eventually determines that the word means "Liar!" I hope this has nothing to do with the popularity of the Usenet term. --ESR]. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: GRILF |
| Specialty definitions using "GRILF": cow orker ♦ filk ♦ newsfroup ♦ pr0n. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-l-r" | |
-1 letter: frig, girl. | |
-2 letters: fig, fil, fir, rif, rig. | |
-3 letters: if, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-l-r" | |
+2 letters: figural, flaring, flinger, fragile, furling, glorify, gulfier, rifling, rolfing. | |
+3 letters: dirgeful, feruling, filagree, filigree, filmgoer, finagler, fireplug, flaggier, fledgier, fleering, flingers, flirting, flooring, florigen, flouring, frigidly, frilling, froglike, gruffily, infrugal, purfling, raffling, refiling, reflying, riffling, riflings, rightful, ruffling, trifling, uglifier. | |
+4 letters: faltering, ferreling, ferruling, filagreed, filagrees, filigreed, filigrees, filmgoers, filtering, finaglers, firelight, fireplugs, firstling, flaringly, flavoring, flightier, floorings, florigens, flowering, flurrying, flybridge, fragility, frangible, franglais, frazzling, freckling, fribbling, frightful, frillings, frivoling, frizzling, frugality, fulgurite, fullering, glorified, glorifier, glorifies, highflier, highflyer, lifeguard, pilferage, pilfering, prefiling, preflight, profiling, purflings, refalling, refeeling, refelling, refilling, refilming, reflating, reflexing, reflowing, refluxing, refolding, refueling, sulfuring, telfering, triflings, uglifiers, unfurling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 52 49 4C 46 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. .. .-.. ..-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010010 01001001 01001100 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G R I L F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0052 0049 004C 0046 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4152434640 |
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