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Not to be confused with blague, talking nonsense. [43] blah (or blah blah) worthless, boring or silly talk. [43] Blighty (or Old Blighty) Britain, home. Used especially by British troops serving abroad or expatriates. [44] [45] A relic of British India, probably from the Hindi billayati, meaning a foreign land. [46] blim A very small piece of ...
chat up (someone) talk flirtatiously with. Similar to American "come on to (someone)". chav (slang, often derogatory, used primarily in England) typically a nouveau riche or working class person, often of lowish intelligence, who wears sportswear or designer label (e.g. Burberry) copies, fake gold bling, and is a trouble-maker.
"Bull", meaning nonsense, dates from the 17th century, while the term "bullshit" has been used as early as 1915 in British [8] and American [9] slang and came into popular usage only during World War II. The word "bull" itself may have derived from the Old French bole, meaning "fraud, deceit". [9] The term "horseshit" is a near synonym.
Nonsense is a form of communication, via speech, writing, or any other symbolic system, that lacks any coherent meaning. In ordinary usage, nonsense is sometimes synonymous with absurdity or the ridiculous .
"Some people have said to me that they didn't feel like [the person they were texting with] was wanting the response," she explains. "They felt like, 'Well, we're going to meet up on Saturday, so ...
It may originate from the word jib, which is the Angloromani variant of the Romani language word meaning "language" or "tongue". To non-speakers, the Anglo-Romany dialect could sound like English mixed with nonsense words, and if those seemingly nonsensical words are referred to as jib then the term gibberish could be derived as a descriptor ...
Oprah Winfrey, making a surprise appearance, called on Americans to choose "joy" and "common sense over nonsense" during a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night.
1. Semantic nonsense. the use of wrong, distorted, misinterpreted, self-invented or nonexistent words; not making sense. 2. Syntactic nonsense, words put together in a way that does not make sense or gives non-intended meaning. 3. Contra-factual nonsense, are statements that deviate from facts.