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UPSEE-DUTCH

Specialty Definition: UPSEE-DUTCH

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Upsee-Dutch A heavy Dutch beer; Upsee Freese a Friesland strong ale; Upsee English, a strong English ale. Upsee Dutch also means tipsy, stupid with drink.
"I do not like the dulness of your eye,
It hath a heavy cast; `tis upsee-Dutch,
And says you are a lumpish whoremaster."
Ben Jonson: The Alchemist, iv. 4.
"Yet whoop, Barnaby! off with thy liquor,
Drink upsees out, and a flg for the vicar."
Sir Walter Scott: Lady of the Lake, vi. 5.
"Teach me how to take the German upsy freeze, the Danish rouser, the Switzer's stoop of Rhenish."- Dekker: Gull's Hornbook (1609). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: UPSEE-DUTCH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-p-s-t-u-u"

-3 letters: chested, deputes.

-4 letters: cheeps, chuted, chutes, cusped, cutups, depths, depute, deuces, dustup, educes, educts, etched, etches, etudes, peched, pushed, putsch, seduce, shuted, speech, teched, tusche, tushed.

-5 letters: cedes, cepes, cetes, cheep, chest, chute, cutes, cutup, deeps, deets, depth, deuce, duces, ducts, duets, dupes, dutch, eched, eches, educe, educt, etude, heeds, pechs, pedes, phuts.

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

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Alternative Orthography: UPSEE-DUTCH


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

55 50 53 45 45 2D 44 55 54 43 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01010000 01010011 01000101 01000101 00101101 01000100 01010101 01010100 01000011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#80 &#83 &#69 &#69 &#45 &#68 &#85 &#84 &#67 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 0050 0053 0045 0045 002D 0044 0055 0054 0043 0048

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

5550533939153855543742

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