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While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.
Gaki zōshi (餓鬼草紙, "Scroll of Hungry Ghosts").A gaki condemned to shit-eating watches a child wearing geta and holding a chūgi, c. 12th century.. Shit stick means "a thin stake or stick used instead of toilet paper" for anal hygiene and was a historical item of material culture introduced through Chinese Buddhism and Japanese Buddhism.
7. Gigglemug. Used to describe: Someone who is always smiling Here's another one from the Victorian era. In old photos, Victorians are rarely seen smiling, and yet the slang term gigglemug comes ...
Onesie (jumpsuit): One-piece garment worn by older children and adults as loungewear. Infant bodysuit: a bodysuit worn by infants; Onesies is a registered trademark in the US for infant bodysuits, but the term is used widely as a general one. office (cap.) a government department ("Colonial Office", "Foreign and Commonwealth Office")
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
Its first printed use came as early as 1991 in William G. Hawkeswood's "One of the Children: An Ethnography of Identity and Gay Black Men," wherein one of the subjects used the word "tea" to mean ...
one thousand million, or 1,000,000,000 (US: billion or 1,000,000,000) [91] Has for a long time been superseded by the short scale usage of billion (1,000,000,000) and was never as commonly used in the UK as it still is in mainland Europe (where the long scale is still used); when the long scale was used in Britain, "a thousand million" was more ...
Pages in category "Slang terms for men" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ... Thinking man's/woman's crumpet; Toff; Troll (gay slang) U.