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Baby: Term often used to tease others for being childish or too young, or for behaving in an immature way. Bag lady: A homeless old woman or vagrant. Barely legal: [6] A term used to market pornography featuring young people who are "barely legal" (only just reached legal age of majority or the age of consent, or both). The term fetishizes ...
Naivety (also spelled naïvety), naiveness, or naïveté is the state of being naive. It refers to an apparent or actual lack of experience and sophistication, often describing a neglect of pragmatism in favor of moral idealism. A naïve may be called a naïf.
Actress Mary Pickford played a number of ingénue roles. Actress Mildred Davis in 1923. The ingénue (UK: / ˈ æ̃ ʒ ə nj uː,-ʒ eɪ n-/, US: / ˈ æ n (d) ʒ ə nj uː, ˈ ɑː n-/, French: ⓘ) is a stock character in literature, film and a role type in the theater, generally a girl or a young woman, who is endearingly innocent.
This happens when you are careless and naive and someone more street savvy takes advantage of that, like when DMX calls for help on his 1998 song "Slippin'," on which he pleads: "Ayo, I'm slippin ...
A desirable, wholesome, and naive young woman, also described as being an "open-air type" and "public-spirited". [30] [31] Elly May Clampett in the television sitcom series The Clampetts; Bradley Sisters in the television sitcom series Petticoat Junction; Mary Ann Summers in the television sitcom series Gilligan's Island
Like Latin puer, the word was early used as a name for any boy or lad employed as a servant, and so of male servants in general (Chaucer: Pardoners Tale, 1. 204), and especially a journeyman. The current use of the word "knave" for "a man who is dishonest and crafty, a rogue", was however an early usage, and is found in Layamon (c. 1205).
Americans are experiencing a “trust recession,” social scientist Jamil Zaki says in his new book. But research reveals people are often better than we expect, he says.
The word bimbo derives from the Italian bimbo, [4] a masculine-gender term that means "little or baby boy" or "young (male) child" (the feminine form of the Italian word is bimba). Use of this term began in the United States as early as 1919, and was a slang word used to describe an unintelligent [ 5 ] or brutish [ 6 ] man.