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Bushwhacking

Definition: Bushwhacking

Bushwhacking

Adjective

1. Lying in ambush; "bushwhacking guerrillas attacking from ambush".

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

Date "bushwhacking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references)


Modern Translation: Bushwhacking

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

German

  

auflauernd (ambuscading). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ushwhackingbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Bushwhacking"

Words rhyming with "bushwhacking" (pronounced 'Bush"whack`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Batfowling, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Cheeseparing, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Costeaning, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Findfaulting, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming, Forthputing, Fox-hunting, free-living, Free-milling, freethinking, Gaingiving, Glass-gazing, god-fearing, good-looking, Handwriting, haymaking, heartbreaking, heartrending, high-sounding, Home-coming, Home-dwelling. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Bushwhacking

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-g-h-h-i-k-n-s-u-w"

-3 letters: backswing, bushwhack, wingbacks.

-4 letters: backings, hawkings, shucking, whacking, wingback.

-5 letters: abusing, anguish, baching, backing, bakings, bashing, basking, bucking, buckish, bucksaw, bushing, bushwah, busking, cashing, casking, causing, chabuks, chasing, chawing, gawkish, hacking, hagbush, hashing, hawking, hawkish, hushing, husking, kiaughs, sacking, saucing, sawbuck, shaking, shawing, sucking, sunback, washing, wauking.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bushwhacking


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

42 75 73 68 77 68 61 63 6B 69 6E 67

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)

01000010 01110101 01110011 01101000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#115 &#104 &#119 &#104 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 0073 0068 0077 0068 0061 0063 006B 0069 006E 0067

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

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

368785748974676977758073

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Bushwhacking"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch
 


INDEX

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


  

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