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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Blue Hen Captain Caldwell used to say that no cock could be truly game whose mother was not a blue hen. As Caldwell commanded the 1st Delaware regiment in the war, the State of Delaware was nicknamed Blue Hen. Your mother was a blue hen, no doubt. A reproof give to a braggart. (See above.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "BLUE HEN": Blue Hen State. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blue hen | 13 |
the blue hen chicken | 7 |
delaware blue hen | 6 |
blue hen state | 3 |
blue hen football | 2 |
blue hen st | 2 |
blue hen mall | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-h-l-n-u" | |
-1 letter: nebule. | |
-2 letters: leben. | |
-3 letters: been, bene, blue, buhl, hebe, heel, lube, lune, unbe. | |
-4 letters: bee, bel, ben, bun, eel, hen, hub, hue, hun, lee, leu, neb, nee, nub. | |
-5 letters: be, eh, el, en, he, ne, nu, uh, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-h-l-n-u" | |
+3 letters: humbleness, quenchable, unbeholden, unbleached, unblenched, unchewable. | |
+4 letters: unblemished, uncheckable, unreachable, unteachable. | |
+5 letters: bluishnesses, humblenesses, unbreachable, unbreathable, unchangeable, unquenchable, unsearchable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 55 45 48 45 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01010101 01000101 00100000 01001000 01000101 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L U E   H E N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0055 0045 0048 0045 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364655392423948 |
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