— Theodore R. Johnson, Lexicon Valley, Slate.com, 14 March 2016 For such an apt word, it’s a bit surprising that English already has an established synonym foraptronym, one that goes back to the late 1800s:euonym, meaning “a name well suited to the person, place, or thing named....
What does queer mean now? The word "queer" has undergone quite a few evolutions. That's the nature of language: Words change meaning over time, and slang words have specific meanings to specific communities, said Cheng. Mashable Top Stories ...
I was not referring to horses or show dogs—I am referring to the mutt or cat you can now buy “health” insurance for to cover the cover of vaccinations, surgeries and office visits, exactly like it does for human beings. Actually, though I think that insuring race horses or show...
Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess Queen Become a queen; Her pawn queened Common Curiosities Can a princess automatically become a queen? A princess does not automatically become a queen; she may become a queen consort through marriage to a king or a queen regnant through hereditary...
And the second trope that always follows this one is the ol’: does this mean we can’t flirt with anyone at work, does this mean that we can’t hug anyone at work, does this mean that we can’t ever look our female colleagues in the eye for fear we will be accused of harrassmen...
Spaceman” or “Army” with my other friends. I had a plastic “tommygun” that I would “shoot” the other kids with. We also had numerous toys that we would play with. Does anyone remember Spirograph, Silly Putty, Etch-A-Sketch, Doodle Art, Lite-Brite, Tinkertoys, or Magic Slate?
There are two steers in the third pen. Pen (slang) Penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons. They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again. Pen (baseball) The bullpen. Two righties are up in the pen. Pen A tool, originally made ...
Does your male dog have a beautiful stance, gorgeous eyes or long locks of hair? If so, Calix, which means “handsome,” might be a great choice. Good for:Alaskan Malamute, German Shepherd, Australian Shepherd. 80. Egan [ee-gan]
What does heteroflexibility mean? There's not an objective definition of heteroflexibility. In fact, it hasn't yet been used in the scientific study of the psychology of sexual orientation, said Pavel S. Blagov, Ph.D, associate professor of psychology at Whitman College. ...
and what the narrator does so well is she takes on different voices and accents for all of Queenie’s girlfriends. A lot of the people in the book are Jamaican-British, and it’s a very particular accent that she does really well. And there’s some dialects and some slang that I wou...