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TO PLUCK OFF

Definition: TO PLUCK OFF

TO PLUCK OFF

1. To pull or tear off; as, to pluck off the skin.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO PLUCK OFF

English words defined with "TO PLUCK OFF": Decerp. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO PLUCK OFF": Pluck his Goose. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO PLUCK OFF": Avulse. (references)

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Modern Translation: TO PLUCK OFF

Language Translations for "TO PLUCK OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

letépdes, leszakít (tear away, to break away, to pluck, to rip off, to sliver, to tear away, to tear down), lecsíp (pick off, to nip). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

椀ぎ取る (to break or tear off, to pick), 毟り取る (to tear off), もぎ取る (bushy, disheveled, hello, if so, in that case, raggedy, scragly, shaggy, to be torn off, to break or tear off, to come off, to pick, tousled, unkempt). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

むしりとる (to tear off), もぎとる (to break or tear off, to pick). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay uckplay offay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO PLUCK OFF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-f-f-k-l-o-o-p-t-u"

-3 letters: lockout, potluck.

-4 letters: coplot, copout, cutoff, lockup, lookup, offcut, potful, putoff, topful.

-5 letters: cloot, clout, coopt, flock, flout, kloof, pluck, pouff, poult.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO PLUCK OFF


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

54 4F      50 4C 55 43 4B      4F 46 46

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

        

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

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010000 01001100 01010101 01000011 01001011 00100000 01001111 01000110 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#80 &#76 &#85 &#67 &#75 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0050 004C 0055 0043 004B      004F 0046 0046

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

5449250465537452494040

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INDEX

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


  

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