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Meemaw or Maw-maw, an affectionate term for a grandmother. Constance Tucker ("Meemaw"), a character on Young Sheldon This page was last edited on 14 ...
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterisation of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilisation and humanitarian values having ...
kaput (German spelling: kaputt), out-of-order, broken, dead; nix, from German nix, dialectal variant of nichts (nothing) Scheiße, an expression and euphemism meaning "shit", usually as an interjection when something goes amiss; Ur- (German prefix), original or prototypical; e.g. Ursprache, Urtext; verboten, prohibited, forbidden, banned. In ...
Getty Images The locals of Cincinnati use slang terms and phrases that have been part of the local culture for so long, nobody stops to ask why. Once they move away from home, they realize they've ...
In the UK, it is a slang term used most often to refer simply to a "man" or "guy". Geriatric: Offensive slang only when used in a non-medical context. [14] Gerry: (Not to be confused with the pejorative ethnic term towards German people; "gerry" in this context is short for "geriatric"). [19]
92 grandma names to consider. Struggling to find the perfect grandma nickname for the special woman in your life? Here are 92 names for grandma to consider. Grandma. Gran. Grandmom. Grammy. Granny ...
The Buschgroßmutter ("shrub grandmother", [1] in older orthography also Buschgrossmutter [2]; German: [ˈbʊʃˌɡʁoːsˌmʊtɐ]) is a legendary creature from German folklore, especially found in folktales from the regions Thuringia, Saxony, former German-speaking Silesia and the former German-speaking parts of Bohemia. [1]
In Bavarian and Austrian German, the -l or -erl suffix can replace almost any usual German diminutive. For example, the standard word for 'girl' in German is Mädchen and, while Mädchen is still used frequently in Austrian German, a more colloquial "cute" usage would be Mädl , Madl or Mäderl .