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Definition: Man Friday |
Man FridayNoun1. The most helpful assistant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Man Friday (A). A useful and faithful servant, like the Man Friday in Robinson Crusoe. "Count von Rechberg ... was Prince Bismarck's `Man Friday.' "- Athenoeum, 1881. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: Man FridaySynonyms: chief assistant (n), right-hand man (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Auxiliary | Aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal; right-hand, right-hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer; candle-holder, bottle-holder; handmaid; servant; puppet, cat's-paw, jackal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Man Friday |
| Specialty definitions using "man Friday": Side of the Angels. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Man Friday (1972) Mickey's Man Friday (1935) Man Friday (1975) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
man friday | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "man Friday"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | criado fiel. (various references) | |
Turkish | sadık uşak, köle (bond slave, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, chattel, chattel slave, contraband, drudge, helot, mameluke, minion, serf, servile, slave, thrall). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-f-i-m-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: dairyman. | |
-2 letters: damnify, drayman, yardman. | |
-3 letters: afraid, aidman, airman, aramid, farina, firman, infamy, marina, myriad, radian, ramify. | |
-4 letters: adman, amain, amnia, anima, dairy, daman, damar, diary, dinar, drain, drama, fairy, farad, inarm, infra, mafia, mania, maria, mayan, nadir, naiad, naira, rainy, randy, ranid, yaird. | |
-5 letters: afar, airn, airy, amia, amid, amin, amir, aria, arid, army, ayin, damn, darn, dram, dray, fain, fair, fard, farm, fiar, find, firm, firn, fray, maar, maid, main, mair, mana, many, maya, mina, mind, miry, myna, nada, naif, nard, nary, raia, raid, rain, rami, rand, rani, raya, rimy, rind, rynd, yard, yarn, yird. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6E 46 72 69 64 61 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01000110 01110010 01101001 01100100 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a n   F r i d a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006E 0046 0072 0069 0064 0061 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767802408475706791 |
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