HUNGUS

  

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HUNGUS

Specialty Definition: HUNGUS

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Hungus /huhng'g*s/ adj. [perhaps related to slang `humongous'] Large, unwieldy, usually unmanageable. "TCP is a hungus piece of code." "This is a hungus set of modifications." The Infocom text adventure game "Beyond Zork" included two monsters called hunguses. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: HUNGUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-h-n-s-u-u"

-2 letters: gnus, guns, gush, hugs, hung, huns, shun, snug, sugh, sung, ughs.

-3 letters: gnu, gun, hug, hun, nus, sun, ugh, uns.

-4 letters: nu, sh, uh, un, us.

 Words containing the letters "g-h-n-s-u-u"
 

+2 letters: unsought.

 

+3 letters: doughnuts, humongous, humungous, squushing, unhousing, unhusking, uprushing.

 

+4 letters: outpushing, outrushing, sulphuring, unblushing.

 

+5 letters: outblushing, outhustling, outshouting, unrighteous, upthrusting.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HUNGUS


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

48 55 4E 47 55 53

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)

01001000 01010101 01001110 01000111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#85 &#78 &#71 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0055 004E 0047 0055 0053

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

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

425548415553

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