Slowworm

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Slowworm

Definition: Slowworm

Slowworm

Noun

1. Small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind.

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

Date "slowworm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1890. (references)

Synonym: Slowworm

Synonym: blindworm (n). (additional references)

Modern Translation: Slowworm

Language		Translations for "slowworm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Italian		orbettino (slow worm). (various references)

Pig Latin		owwormslay

Turkish		köryılan (sloeworm). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Slowworm

Derivations
	Words beginning with "slowworm": slowworms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Slowworm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: slugworm. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Slowworm

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "l-m-o-o-r-s-w-w"
	-3 letters: looms, mools, moors, osmol, rooms, wools, worms.
	-4 letters: loom, loos, lows, mols, mool, moor, moos, mors, mows, owls, roms, room, rows, slow, solo, wool, woos, worm, wows.
	-5 letters: loo, low, mol, moo, mor, mos, mow, oms, ors, owl, rom, row, sol, som, sow, woo, wos, wow.
	Words containing the letters "l-m-o-o-r-s-w-w"
	+1 letter: glowworms, slowworms.
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Alternative Orthography: Slowworm

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

53 6C 6F 77 77 6F 72 6D

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 01101100 01101111 01110111 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#111 &#119 &#119 &#111 &#114 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 006F 0077 0077 006F 0072 006D

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

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

5378818989818479

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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