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  2. Street performance - Wikipedia

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    The verb to busk, from the word busker, comes from the Spanish root word buscar, with the meaning "to seek". [3] The Spanish word buscar in turn evolved from the Indo-European word *bhudh-skō ("to win, conquer"). [4] It was used for many street acts, and was the title of a famous Spanish book about one of them, El Buscón. Today, the word is ...

  3. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and languages of Italy, such as the Tuscan dialect, which had a very strong influence in modern standard Italian, and is widely known to be based on Florentine language. [1]

  4. Category:Italian words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. As such almost all article titles should be italicized (with Template:Italic title). Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words.

  5. Category:Italian slang - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Italian slang" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Baccagghju; F. Farfallino ...

  6. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).

  7. Buskin - Wikipedia

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    A buskin is a knee- or calf-length boot made of leather or cloth, enclosed by material, and laced, from above the toes to the top of the boot, and open across the toes. [ 1 ] The word buskin, only recorded in English since 1503 meaning "half boot", is of unknown origin, perhaps from Old French brousequin (in modern French brodequin ) or ...

  8. Pope used vulgar Italian word to refer to LGBT people ...

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    Pope Francis used a highly derogatory term towards the LGBT community as he reiterated in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops that gay people should not be allowed to become priests ...

  9. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2013 December 17

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    As I shallowly know Naples has no less bandit reputation than Sicily and Neapolitan is a source for many slang words in Italian.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin 20:07, 17 December 2013 (UTC) Thanks. The works of fiction don't work, because they don't factually say that the word is used in any context outside the fictional work itslef.