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noun • a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals) • United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872) | ||||||||
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26% | 7 | Pen name of an author, puzzle inventor and Oxford mathematics don who coined portmanteau words including bandersnatch, burble, chortle, frabjous, frumious, galumph, jabberwocky and mimsy | ||||||
noun • English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) | ||||||||
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