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  2. Puck (folklore) - Wikipedia

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    The etymology of puck was uncertain. [1] The modern English word is attested already in Old English as puca (with a diminutive form pucel).Similar words are attested later in Old Norse (púki, with related forms including Old Swedish puke, Icelandic púki, and Frisian puk) but also in the Celtic languages (Welsh pwca, Cornish bucca and Irish púca).

  3. Vomiting - Wikipedia

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    Coffee-ground-like vomit suggests less severe bleeding in the stomach because the gastric acid has had time to change the composition of the blood; Yellow or green vomit suggests bile, indicating that the pyloric valve is open and bile is flowing into the stomach from the duodenum. This may occur during successive episodes of vomiting after the ...

  4. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    On these other things, we get into the field of hypocrisy. Where you really cannot pin down what these rules they want to enforce are. It's just impossible to say "this is a blanket rule". You'll see some newspapers print "f blank blank k". Some print "f asterisk asterisk k". Some put "f blank blank blank". Some put the word "bleep".

  5. Púca - Wikipedia

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    Considered to be bringers both of good and bad fortune, they could help or hinder rural and marine communities. Púcaí can have dark or white fur or hair. The creatures were said to be shape-changers that could take the appearance of horses, goats, cats, dogs, and hares. They may also take a human form, which includes various animal features ...

  6. Emetophobia - Wikipedia

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    Emetophobia is a phobia that causes overwhelming, intense anxiety pertaining to vomit. This specific phobia can also include subcategories of what causes the anxiety, including a fear of vomiting or being vomited on or seeing others vomit. [1] Emetophobes might also avoid the mentions of "barfing", vomiting, "throwing up", or "puking." [2]

  7. List of military slang terms - Wikipedia

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    Although the word “rear” is not normally used to describe the vantage point of senior corporate executives, their use of the term might have come about as the result of their frequent conclusions that the cause of corporate problems (inefficiencies and ineffectiveness causing poor profitability or a negative bottom line) rested not with ...

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  9. Wikipedia : List of really, really, really stupid article ...

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    List of things that can play Bad Apple. Or actually playing it in Wikipedia. If you look in the correct area, someone did. List of your favorite moments from the 1996 movie Space Jam; The best candy (It's Candy Corn)(No it's obviously licorice, duh)(nuh uh, its Skittles, get it right) An article where everything consists solely of this link