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Wackily

Definition: Wackily

Wackily

Adverb

1. In a mildly insane manner; "the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily".

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

Synonyms: Wackily

Synonyms: balmily (adv), daftly (adv), dottily (adv), nuttily (adv). (additional references)

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Expression: Wackily

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "wackily": wackily-observed.

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

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Modern Translations: Wackily

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

Arabic 

  

‏على نحو أحمق. (various references)

   

French

  

follement. (various references)

   

German

  

verrückt (Batty, crack-brained, crazily, crazy, daft, daisy, demented, dementedly, insane, insanely, kinky, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, madly, mentally unbalanced, mind-boggling, nuts, potty, psycho, raving, scatty, screwy, unbalanced, wacky, whimsical, wild, zany). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackilyway

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Wackily

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-k-l-w-y"

-2 letters: wacky.

-3 letters: acyl, alky, caky, calk, claw, clay, icky, ilka, kail, lack, lacy, laic, laky, lick, wack, wail, walk, waly, wick, wily, yack, yawl.

-4 letters: ail, awl, caw, cay, ick, icy, ilk, kay, lac, law, lay, way, yak, yaw.

-5 letters: ai, al, aw, ay, ka, la, li, ya.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Wackily


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

57 61 63 6B 69 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)

01010111 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101001 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#105 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 0063 006B 0069 006C 0079

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

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

57676977757891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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