A frequently given etymology, although widely rejected as a folk etymology, derives itfrom Hiram Codd, British soft drink maker of the 1870s, known for the eponymous Codd-neck bottle, with the suggestion that codswallop is a derisive term for soft drinks by beer drinkers, from Codd's + wall...
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Celebrated on November 1, in terms of the Gregorian calendar, the word Samain is usually derived etymologically from Old Irishsam“summer”+fuin“end.” The suffix –fuinis somewhat unlikely, philologically and morphologically speaking, though it is a persuasive folk etymology, even one used in...
The etymology of the rather colloquial term now lies in the characteristic diffraction data of these fibrils where two distinct diffraction line sets at 0.47 nm and 1.0 nm correspond to the longitudinal inter-strand transverse stacking distances [47]. However, it is worthwhile to note that only ...
If your life is devoid of queer people and therefore joyless and terrible, “twink” is a gay slang term that denotes a particular slim, hairless, youthful body-type. While the etymology of Twink is contested, a definition from Gay-2-Zee: A Dictionary of Sex, Subtext, and the Sublime...