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Buffalo Slang. Andrea Duchon. Updated September 22, 2016 at 2:13 PM. Buffalo Slang. Getty Images. As the second largest city in New York State, Buffalo's vibrant population of more than 270,000 ...
The Guide to Buffalo English. Archived 2010-09-15 at the Wayback Machine. The Northern Cities Vowel Shift. Archived 2005-11-20 at the Wayback Machine. NPR interview with Professor William Labov about the shift; PBS resource from the show "Do you Speak American?" Select Annotated Bibliography On the Speech of Buffalo, NY.
The sentence employs three distinct meanings of the word buffalo: As an attributive noun (acting as an adjective) to refer to a specific place named Buffalo, such as the city of Buffalo, New York; As the verb to buffalo, meaning (in American English [1] [2]) "to bully, harass, or intimidate" or "to baffle"; and
Historically, a number of everyday words and expressions used to be characteristic of different dialect areas of the United States, especially the North, the Midland, and the South; many of these terms spread from their area of origin and came to be used throughout the nation. Today many people use these different words for the same object ...
Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms also refer to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. Additionally, sometimes the use of one or more additional words is optional. Notable examples are cheeses, cat breeds, dog breeds, and horse breeds.
(v.) (slang) to talk at length, usually about trivial things; usually to 'rabbit on' (Cockney rhyming slang Rabbit and pork = talk) (n.) the animal rabbit, a lagomorph (rabbit ears) (slang) TV antenna (usage becoming obsolete) rad acronym from Radiation Absorbed Dose, an obsolete unit for absorbed ionizing radiation dose abbreviation of radian
Netflix, from internet and flicks (slang for movie) Nikon, from Nippon KÅgaku and Ikon; Pinterest, from pin and interest; Poo-Pourri, from poo and potpourri; Popsicle, from lollipop and icicle [7] Qualcomm, from Quality and Communications; RuPay, from rupee and payment; Rustoleum, from rust and linoleum; Spotify, from spot and identify
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