They stick their caravans on the odd bit of green space, wreck it and come around the neighbourhood offering tree cutting services and leaving a wake of suspicion. This will all be accompanied by the usual apple sauce (pork), mint sauce (lamb) and Yorkshire pudding (beef) as well as roast potatoes, roast parsnips and other sundry vegetables with a large jug of gravy, made from the meat juices, in the pan it was roasted in
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The words are so silly, so juvenile, that they hardly qualify as racial slurs at all, let alone slurs on a par with those that have been historically deployed against people of color. Simply put, what separates white racism from any other form and makes anti-black and brown humor more dangerous than its anti-white equivalent is the ability of the former to become lodged in the minds and perceptions of the citizenry
The group that was on the Lamb was headed by Cutberth Hayhurst, his wife and kids, his brother and wife and kids, and his sister and husband, along with a few others. slang verb meaning "to run off" (1886), of uncertain origin, perhaps somehow from the first element of lambaste, which was used in British student slang for "beat" since 1590s
The Veiled Chameleon: Where the HELL did all of these Mexicans come from??? (Please don't answer: Mexico.)
Do you Mexicans really think that people just put signs in their store windows "NO Mexicans Allowed here" back in the 20's and 30's because they had nothing better to do? No, they did it because of what you are. I would like to point out that WE invaded this country and forcibly took it away from the indigenous prople(s) whom we relegated to various slices of land we didn't want (which we called "reservations" ...
(The line was reportedly improvised; the script does not contain dialogue for the scene.) In any case, the use of welp in this fashion is far more than 18 years old. Amanda Hess This Data-Protection Company Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data A New Chrome Extension Turns Your Browser Into an Archive of Cat Art This Computer Program Decodes Emotions in Books and Emails
It was obvious to the viewer that the wife was being unfaithful with the painter, and eventually the phrase came to refer to infidelity outside of the show. It could also refer to a penis as in pelar la yuca, meaning to peel the foreskin back, and rasca yuca referring to scratch the penis to provide pleasure
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This should be taken as approximate, especially before about 1700, since a word may have been used in conversation for hundreds of years before it turns up in a manuscript that has had the good fortune to survive the centuries
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NC License Plates E-Newsletters TINKERIN' TIPS Slang of the 1920's The twenties were the first decade to emphasize youth culture over the older generations, and the flapper sub-culture had a tremendous influence on main stream America; many new words and phrases were coined by these liberated women
Encyclopedia - Where did OKAY come from?
The Anglo-Saxon theory Several centuries before its first appearance, Norwegian and Danish sailors used an Anglo-Saxon word, hogfor, which meant ready for sea. I would suggest that the Choctaw, and possibly even the other foreign language influences, had resulted in small pockets of America using okeh or something similar
Come - definition of come by The Free Dictionary
informal) If she came down too hard on him, he would rebel.come down on something decide on (with one or other side of an argument as object) choose, favour He clearly came down on the side of the President.come down to something amount to, boil down to In the end it all comes down to a matter of personal preference.come down with something catch (with illness as object) get, take, contract, fall victim to, fall ill, be stricken with, take sick, sicken with He came down with chickenpox.come forward volunteer, step forward, present yourself, offer your services A witness came forward to say that she had seen him that night.come from something1. come and (imperative or dependent imperative) to move towards a particular person or thing or accompany a person with some specified purpose: come and see what I've found
In 2000, while speaking at an event promoting a massive effort to increase the export of British English teachers and English language curricula abroad, Britain's Prince Charles was asked by a reporter to comment on the rival form of the language spoken in the United States
.2829 Browsing page 1 of words meaning exclamations (list of) (290 words total) The slang words in this thesaurus category appear below the table of contents. Popularized by the 1995 movie Friday.Speaker: Is that your car?Response: And you know this, man! See more words with the same meaning: accurate, probably, likely, certainly
Australian slang dictionary
Ute : utility vehicle, pickup truck V Vedgies : vegetables Vee dub : Volkswagen Veg out : relax in front of the TV (like a vegetable) Vejjo : vegetarian Vinnie's : St. Trough lolly : the solid piece of perfumed disinfectant in a men's urinal Truckie : truck driver True blue : patriotic Tucker : food Tucker-bag : food bag Turps : turpentine, alcoholic drink Turps, hit the : go on a drinking binge Two up : gambling game played by spinning two coins simultaneously U Ugg boots : Australian sheepskin boots worn by surfers since at least the 1960s to keep warm while out of the water
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picar, to poke; also to shoot up as in heroin) pinta jail; prison (more specifically) pintar paredes to masturbate pisto beer; can of beer (more specifically); also general term for alcoholic beverage. from mayatl (Nahuatl) an iridescent black scarab mayatero someone who tries to "act black" mexa from a Mexican origin miclo light-skinned Mexican mojado wetback
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Also from Peter smoko: break, rest period snarky: mixture of sarcastic and nasty snotty: snooty, ill-humoured, packing a sad sook: kindly description of someone who is being silly, or behaving like a softy or scaredy cat. And from Jeff Law...The expression 'Rattle your dags' reputedly refers to a somewhat mucky sheep 'rattling it's dags (dried excretia hanging from the wool)' when running! rellies: family, relatives root: to have sex
He also pointed out that Atlanta's long-time minor league team was called the "Atlanta Crackers." The New Georgia Encyclopedia says that the derivation is more complicated. Malcom X, in his speach "The Ballot or the Bullet," said "It's time for you and me to stop sitting in this country, letting some cracker senators, Northern crackers and Southern crackers, sit there in Washington, D.C., and come to a conclusion in their mind that you and I are supposed to have civil rights
and Canada in the early 1980s, drew heavily on linguistic differences such as pronunciation (such as Trawna for Toronto or brudle for brutal) as well as once-obscure historical terms such as hoser or hosehead (originally used to refer to gas siphoning on the prairies in the depression era). Also known as Scompton, in reference to its perceived similarities with the Compton neighbourhood in Los Angeles, as well as Scarlem, in reference to its perceived similarities with the Harlem region of New York
The Best of British - British Slang
You certainly don't have a fanny pack, or smack people on their fannys - you would get arrested for that! Careful use of this word in the UK is advised! Fanny around - I'm always telling people to stop fannying around and get on with it. This is Cockney rhyming slang for piddle! John Thomas - Yet another word for a blokes willy! I always felt a bit sorry for people who were actually called John Thomas
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A dictionary of slang - "C" - Slang and colloquialisms of the UK.
The word goes back to Middle English, cunte, and before then it can only be speculated upon, however some believe its origins lie with the Latin, cuneus, meaning wedge. It involves pulling the hair into a pony tail, and tying it so tightly at the back of the head that the resulting skin across the face is pulled taught, as though in a facelift
Slang Words: What Do Canadians Say?
While the majority of Canadians haven't been to countries like Azerbaijan, they do take pride in seeing the world and it's difficult to not run into a Canadian while travelling abroad. They are related to plums, peaches and apricots, and are commonly used in making juices, jams, jellies and wine, according to the Government of Manitoba
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