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Sottishness

Definition: Sottishness

Sottishness

Noun

1. Stupefaction from drink.

2. Lack of restraint in use of alcohol.

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

Date "sottishness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)


Modern Translation: Sottishness

Language Translations for "sottishness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

μώρανση (stupefaction), αποβλάκωση (stultification, stupefaction). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

אוילות (fatuity, fatuously, fatuousness, foolery, foolishness, silliness, stupidity). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ottishnesssay

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự nghiện rượu bí tỉ sự đần độn vì rượu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Sottishness

Derivations

Words beginning with "sottishness": sottishnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Sottishness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-o-s-s-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: stonishes.

-3 letters: histones, sessions, sonsiest, stenosis, stoniest.

-4 letters: essoins, ethions, histone, hostess, hotness, nosiest, osseins, session, shotten, sithens, sottish, stonish, testons, theists, toniest.

-5 letters: enosis, eosins, essoin, ethion, ethnos, heists, hisses, hoises, hoists, honest, insets, noesis, noises, noshes, onsets, ossein, setons, shiest, shines, shists, shotes, shotts, sitten, sonsie, steins, stenos, stints, stones, stotin, tenths.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-o-s-s-s-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: sottishnesses.

 

+5 letters: coquettishnesses, shortsightedness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sottishness


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

53 6F 74 74 69 73 68 6E 65 73 73

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010011 01101111 01110100 01110100 01101001 01110011 01101000 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#116 &#116 &#105 &#115 &#104 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0074 0074 0069 0073 0068 006E 0065 0073 0073

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

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

5381868675857480718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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