By purchasing through these links, you help support Wordnik’s nonprofit mission to find and share all the words of English.]January 31, 2021 by Angela Tung Soap Opera Slang: From Horses to K-Dramas Do you enjoy your stories? Today’s the perfect day to celebrate them. On this day ...
(If you’re interested in learning more about emblems in different cultures, you may enjoyDictionary of Gestures: Expressive Comportments and Movements in Use Around the World. Bonus:this Wordnik listof emblematic gestures.) homesign “The hand movements are calledhomesigns(because they were crea...
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If you can pronounce any of these, treat yourself to a new pair of shoes. If you can work these into a casual conversation, take the rest of the day off. (Words and definitions from Oxford Dictionaries, Wordnik, Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary and Wikipedia.) 1. Pneumonoultramicroscopic...
Hercules served as aslaveto Omphale for a period of time. It is believed the word slave also derives from *kleu‘To hear’. [seeWordnik Heracles was the son of the god Zeus and a mortal woman, Alcmene, whom Zeus visited in the form of her husband, Amphitryon. Early in life Herakles...
McBain’s Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language sayseighis ice, ‘henceeighre,oighre, Irishoighear, Early Irishaigred, Welsheiry, snow’. It refers todeigh‘ice’ (cf. Icelandicjökull), and says its initialdis prothetic – the sound was added to the start of the original word...
Happy National Welsh Rarebit Day! In case you don’t know, rarebit, a corruption of the word rabbit, isn’t rabbit at all but “cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast.” If bunnies have nothing to do with this dish, how did it get its name? The word Welsh was “used ...