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  2. List of ideophones in Basque - Wikipedia

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    balan-balan — move clumsily. bal-bal — hard boiling sound. ban-ban — industrious, proud, non-stop. bar-bar — sound of bubbling water; rhythmic falling of a light body. barra-barra — a great deal, a lot, amply, abundantly, plentifully. barrast — sound of ripping; barristi-barrasta — move quickly. bat-bat — wholly, completely.

  3. Kludge - Wikipedia

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    The word "kludge" is, according to Burling, derived from the same root as the German klug (Dutch kloog, Swedish klag, Danish klog, Gothic klaugen, Lettish [Latvian] kladnis and Sanskrit veklaunn), originally meaning 'smart' or 'witty'. In the typical machinations of language in evolutionary growth, the word "kludge" eventually came to mean 'not ...

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  5. Comprehension of idioms - Wikipedia

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    Comprehension of idioms is the act of processing and understanding idioms.Idioms are a common type of figure of speech.Based on common linguistic definitions, an idiom is a combination of words that contains a meaning that cannot be understood based on the literal definition of the individual words. [1]

  6. Davidsbündlertänze - Wikipedia

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    Etwas hahnbüchen: Somewhat clumsily (Un poco impetuoso) (1st edition), Mit Humor: With humor (Con umore) (2nd edition), G major, Florestan (hahnbüchen, now usually hanebüchen or hagebüchen, is an untranslatable colloquialism roughly meaning "coarse" or "clumsy". Ernest Hutcheson translated it as "cockeyed" in his book The Literature of the ...

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  8. Clumsy (Fergie song) - Wikipedia

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    The song samples "The Girl Can't Help It" by Little Richard. [6]The song's computerized beeps flow alongside Fergie singing about being clumsy and in love, [6] with the bridge consisting of the lines "You got me trippin', stumblin', flippin', fumblin' / Clumsy cuz I'm fallin in love". [7]

  9. Tonewheel - Wikipedia

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    Simplified diagram of how a tonewheel works Goldschmidt tone wheel (1910), used as an early beat frequency oscillator. A tonewheel or tone wheel is a simple electromechanical apparatus used for generating electric musical notes in electromechanical organ instruments such as the Hammond organ and in telephony to generate audible signals such as ringing tone.