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MUMCHANCE

Date "MUMCHANCE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references)


Specialty Definition: MUMCHANCE

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Literature

Mumchance Silence, Mumchance was a game of chance with dice, in which silence was indispensable. (Mum is connected with mumble; German, mumme, a muffle; Danish, mumle, to mumble.)
"And for `mumchance,' howe'er the cehane may fall,
You must be mum for fear of spoiling all."
Machiavell's Dogg. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

MUMCHANCE. An ancient game like hazard, played with dice: probably so named from the silence observed in playing at it. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Anagrams: MUMCHANCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-m-m-n-u"

-3 letters: acumen, caecum, chance, humane, manche, nuchae.

-4 letters: cache, cecum, hance, human, mache, mecca, munch, nucha.

-5 letters: ache, acme, acne, ahem, amen, came, cane, ceca, cham, chum, each, haem, haen, hame, mace, mach, mane, maun, mean, menu, much, name, nema, neum.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-h-m-m-n-u"
 

+5 letters: immunochemical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MUMCHANCE


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

4D 55 4D 43 48 41 4E 43 45

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)

01001101 01010101 01001101 01000011 01001000 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#85 &#77 &#67 &#72 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0055 004D 0043 0048 0041 004E 0043 0045

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

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

475547374235483739

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