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In full the song of the dunnie goes: "Cockenheugh there's gear enough, Collierheugh there's mair, For I've lost the key o' the Bounders" "Ross for rabbits, and Elwick for kail, Of a' the' towns e'er I saw Howick for ale: Howick for ale, and Kyloe for scrubbers, Of a' the towns e'er I saw Lowick for robbers;-Lowick for robbers, Buckton for breed,
A similar legend applies to Dun Cow Rib Farm in Halfpenny Lane, Whittingham, Lancashire, just outside the town of Longridge.Embedded in its wall is a large rib, supposedly from a giant dun cow that gave milk freely to all comers, but died of shock when an old witch asked it to fill a riddle instead of a pail. [3]
[D] The term "outhouse" is used in North American English for the structure over a toilet, usually a pit latrine ("long-drop"). However, in British English "outhouse" means any outbuilding, including such as a shed or barn. [50] In Australia and parts of Canada an outdoor toilet is known as a "dunny". "Privy", an archaic variant of "private ...
"Dunnies", nickname for the Whitby Dunlops, a Canadian Major League Hockey team "Dunny", a toy produced by the company Kidrobot, similar to the Munny Dunny ( Bluey ) , episode of the Australian children's TV show Bluey
Usually used in games like jackpots, meaning to enter without openers. back into To win a pot with a hand that would have folded to any bet backraise A reraise from a player who previously called in the same betting round bad beat To lose a hand where one hand is considerably ahead of the eventual winning hand. See main article: bad beat. balance
Born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and raised in Chicago, Herbert Huncke was a street hustler, high school dropout, and drug user.He left Chicago as a teenager after his parents divorced and began living as a hobo, jumping trains throughout the United States and bonding with other vagrants through shared destitution and common experience.
The phrase "down bad" has taken on a life of its own on social media. People seem to be using it in a myriad of ways, but the spirit of the term is to yearn. Urban Dictionary defines "down bad" as ...
Rudy Ray Moore, known as "Dolemite", is well known for having used the term in his comedic performances.While signifyin(g) is the term coined by Henry Louis Gates Jr. to represent a black vernacular, the idea stems from the thoughts of Ferdinand De Saussure and the process of signifying—"the association between words and the ideas they indicate."