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SNECK POSSET

Specialty Definition: SNECK POSSET

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Sneck Posset To give one a sneck posset is to slam the door in his face (Cumberland and Westmoreland). The "sneck" or snick is the latch of a door, and to "sneck the door in one's face" is to shut a person out. Mrs. Browning speaks of "nicking" the door.
"The lady closed That door, and nicked the lock." Aurora Leigh, book vi. line 1,067.
Probably allied to niche, to put the latch into its niche. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: SNECK POSSET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-k-n-o-p-s-s-s-t"

-2 letters: penstocks.

-3 letters: knessets, penstock, pentoses, posteens, potences, stenoses, stepsons.

-4 letters: cenotes, cossets, ketones, ketoses, knesset, openest, pectens, pentose, pockets, poetess, possets, posteen, poteens, potence, sockets, spences, spenses, stepson.

-5 letters: cenote, censes, centos, cesses, cestos, contes, copens, copses, cosets, cosset, eposes, escots, estops, ketone, ketose, knosps, nesses, netops, onsets, pecten, pekoes, peones, pestos, pocket, ponces.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SNECK POSSET


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

53 4E 45 43 4B      50 4F 53 53 45 54

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

    

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

01010011 01001110 01000101 01000011 01001011 00100000 01010000 01001111 01010011 01010011 01000101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#78 &#69 &#67 &#75 &#32 &#80 &#79 &#83 &#83 &#69 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004E 0045 0043 004B      0050 004F 0053 0053 0045 0054

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

53483937452504953533954

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