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Scut Work

Definition: Scut Work

Scut Work

Noun

1. Trivial unrewarding tedious dirty and disagreeable chores; "the hospital hired him to do scut work".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Scut Work

Synonym: shitwork (n). (additional references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scut Work

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
scut work	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Scut Work

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: cutworks.
	Words within the letters "c-k-o-r-s-t-u-w"
	-1 letter: cutwork.
	-2 letters: courts, struck, trocks, trucks.
	-3 letters: corks, court, crows, crust, curst, rocks, roust, routs, rucks, scour, scout, stock, stork, stour, strow, stuck, torcs, torsk, torus, tours, trock, trows, truck, tucks, turks, works, worst, worts, wurst.
	-4 letters: cork, cors, cost, cots, cows, crow, crus, curs, curt, cusk, cuts, kors, orcs, orts, ours, oust, outs.
	Words containing the letters "c-k-o-r-s-t-u-w"
	+1 letter: ductworks.
	+2 letters: knockwurst, stuccowork.
	+3 letters: knockwursts, stuccoworks.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Scut Work

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

53 63 75 74 57 6F 72 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01110101 01110100 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#117 &#116 &#32 &#87 &#111 &#114 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0075 0074 0057 006F 0072 006B

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

53698786257818477

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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