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Sprawly

Definition: Sprawly

Sprawly

Adjective

1. Spread out irregularly; "sat sprawled in the big armchair"; "the sprawling suburbs"; "a big sprawly city".

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

Date "sprawly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)


Synonyms: Sprawly

Synonyms: sprawled (adj), sprawling (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sprawly

English words defined with "sprawly": sprawled, sprawling. (references)

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Anagrams: Sprawly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-l-p-r-s-w-y"

-1 letter: psywar, sprawl.

-2 letters: aryls, palsy, pawls, plays, prays, raspy, rawly, splay, spray, warps, waspy, wraps, yawls, yawps.

-3 letters: alps, aryl, awls, awry, laps, lars, laws, lays, pals, paly, pars, pawl, paws, pays, play, pray, pyas, raps, rasp, raws, rays, ryas, salp, slap, slaw, slay, spar, spay, spry, swap, sway, waly, waps, warp, wars.

 Words containing the letters "a-l-p-r-s-w-y"
 

+2 letters: swordplay, wordplays.

 

+3 letters: polywaters, swordplays.

 

+4 letters: playwrights, superlawyer, swordplayer.

 

+5 letters: playwritings, superlawyers, swordplayers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sprawly


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

53 70 72 61 77 6C 79

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)

...    .--.    .-.    .-    .--.    .-..    -.--.

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

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

01010011 01110000 01110010 01100001 01110111 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#112 &#114 &#97 &#119 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0070 0072 0061 0077 006C 0079

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

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

53828467897891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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