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Pages in category "Slang terms for men" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ... Thinking man's/woman's crumpet; Toff; Troll (gay slang) U.
The word "man" is still used in its generic meaning in literary English. The verb to man (i.e. "to furnish [a fortress or a ship] with a company of men") dates to early Middle English. The word has been applied generally as a suffix in modern combinations like "fireman", "policeman", and "mailman".
The word was used by cowboys to unfavorably refer to the city dwellers. [9] A variation of this was a "well-dressed man who is unfamiliar with life outside a large city". In The Home and Farm Manual (1883), author Jonathan Periam used the term "dude" several times to denote an ill-bred and ignorant but ostentatious man from the city. [citation ...
Its first printed use came as early as 1991 in William G. Hawkeswood's "One of the Children: An Ethnography of Identity and Gay Black Men," wherein one of the subjects used the word "tea" to mean ...
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
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The term is used several times by Paul Newman's eponymous character in the 1967 prison drama Cool Hand Luke [citation needed] and by Peter Fonda's character in the Wild Angels in "We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man." [3] The use of this term was expanded to counterculture groups and their resistance to ...
(M./Mme) Machin/Machine (familiar terms, used when one does not wish take the trouble to think of a more specific term); [21] (Un) Gazier originally, a man who worked in gas transport; nowadays, it is a familiar way to say "Someone" (mostly for a man; this term is rare for women, and in such case, the correct word is the feminine form "Gazière ...