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Bumpkinly

Definition: Bumpkinly

Bumpkinly

Adjective

1. Awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists".

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


Synonyms: Bumpkinly

Synonyms: hick (adj), rustic (adj), unsophisticated (adj). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Bumpkinly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-i-k-l-m-n-p-u-y"

-2 letters: bumpily, bumpkin.

-3 letters: bumkin, linkup, nimbly, numbly, pinkly, punily, uplink.

-4 letters: blimp, blimy, blink, bulky, bumpy, imply, limby, linky, linum, lumpy, lupin, milky, pinky, plink, plumb, plumy, plunk, pulik, punky.

-5 letters: bilk, blin, blip, bulk, bump, bunk, inby, inky, inly, kiln, limb, limn, limp, limy, link, liny, lump, lunk, luny, milk, mink, muni, numb.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bumpkinly


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

42 75 6D 70 6B 69 6E 6C 79

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101011 01101001 01101110 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#109 &#112 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 006D 0070 006B 0069 006E 006C 0079

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

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

368779827775807891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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