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Smooth-spoken

Definition: Smooth-spoken

Smooth-spoken

Adjective

1. Expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech".

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

Date "smooth-spoken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references)

Synonyms: Smooth-spoken

Synonyms: eloquent (adj), facile (adj), fluent (adj), silver (adj), silver-tongued (adj). (additional references)

Modern Translation: Smooth-spoken

Language		Translations for "smooth-spoken"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		光滑讲话. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		口巧者 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くち�"うしゃ. (various references)

Korean		매끄럽 말하�". (various references)

Manx		so-loayrtagh (rhetoric). (various references)

Pig Latin		ooth-spokensmay

Portuguese		de fala mansa (mealy-mouthed, soft-spoken), adulador (adulatory, creeping, fawning, flatterer, flunkey, groveller, lackey, lacquey, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, smarmy, smooth-tongued, sugary, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, truckler, tuft-hunter, unctuous). (various references)

Russian		мягко сказанный. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Rhyming with "Smooth-spoken"

Words rhyming with "smooth-spoken" (pronounced 'Smooth"-spo`ken'): foul-spoken, free-spoken, heartbroken, Plain-spoken, Pock-broken, Pretty-spoken, Short-spoken, soft-spoken, Straight-spoken, Well-spoken, Wind-broken. (additional references)

Anagrams: Smooth-spoken

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-h-k-m-n-o-o-o-p-s-s-t"
	-3 letters: hooknoses, moonshots, smokepots, smoothens.
	-4 letters: hooknose, metopons, moonsets, moonshot, pothooks, smokepot, smoothen, smoothes.
	-5 letters: hoopoes, hotness, metopon, moonset, mopokes, phenoms, photons, poshest, postmen, pothook, shnooks, shopmen, smooths, soonest, soothes, stemson, stepson.
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Alternative Orthography: Smooth-spoken

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

53 6D 6F 6F 74 68 2D 73 70 6F 6B 65 6E

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

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

01010011 01101101 01101111 01101111 01110100 01101000 00101101 01110011 01110000 01101111 01101011 01100101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#109 &#111 &#111 &#116 &#104 &#45 &#115 &#112 &#111 &#107 &#101 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006D 006F 006F 0074 0068 002D 0073 0070 006F 006B 0065 006E

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

53798181867415858281777180

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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