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Dude is American slang for an individual, typically male. [1] From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a male person who dressed in an extremely fashionable manner (a dandy) or a conspicuous citified person who was visiting a rural location, a "city slicker". In the 1960s, dude evolved to mean any male person, a meaning that slipped ...
(dated slang) shove it, get lost, go away – a much less offensive alternative to "fuck off" (originally obscure Polari slang, made popular by prison sitcom Porridge and famously used by Princess Anne) nail varnish a varnish applied to nails to enhance strength and glossiness. (US: nail polish) nancy boy an effeminate man, a homosexual (dated ...
As reported by British GQ, the word “sigma” was born from the misogynistic “manosphere.” What does ‘sigma’ mean? Philip Lindsay , a special education math teacher in Payson, Arizona ...
Just when you figured out "soonicorn" and started "dawn dating," perhaps it's time to understand what all those Brits mean with terms like "peng," "punching" and "cracking on." (You know, in case ...
toilet (slightly vulgar slang) (bog off) go away (slightly vulgar slang, often jocular) wetland that accumulates appreciable peat deposits A plot of artificially floodable farmland used to grow cranberries (a cranberry bog) bogey dried nasal mucus usu. after extraction from the nose (US: booger) (informal) the score of one over par in golf
5. Muffin walloper. Used to describe: An older, unmarried woman who gossips a lot. This colorful slang was commonly used in the Victorian era to describe unmarried old ladies who would gossip ...
It has been widely believed, used and postulated by Australians that the word dude somehow means camels dick or foreskin. I wonder where this idea orginated, given dude has many other colloquial meanings in the USA and in England. Can you please help resolve this historical and/or slang usage. Thank you kindly, Emma Crichton.