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  2. May Queen - Wikipedia

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    A May Queen of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada circa 1877. In the British Isles and parts of the Commonwealth, the May Queen or Queen of May is a personification of the May Day holiday of 1 May, and of springtime and the coming growing season. The May Queen is a girl who rides or walks at the front of a parade for May Day celebrations.

  3. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    The word may be related to the Dutch word nestig, or "dirty". [73] It predates Nast by several centuries, appearing in the most famous sentence of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, that in the state of nature, the life of man is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". That work was published in 1651, whereas Nast was born in 1840.

  4. List of English words of Dravidian origin - Wikipedia

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    The origin of this word cannot be conclusively attributed to Malayalam or Tamil. Congee, porridge, water with rice; uncertain origin, possibly from Tamil kanji (கஞ்சி), [7] Telugu or Kannada gañji, or Malayalam kaññi (കഞ്ഞി). [citation needed] Alternatively, possibly from Gujarati, [8] which is not a Dravidian language.

  5. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...

  6. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).

  7. Drag Race terminology - Wikipedia

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    a term used to describe when a drag queen looks like a cisgender woman gag [6] [7] / gagging [11] another term used in place of "stunned" garage doors [2] one solid color of eyeshadow heavily applied over the entire lid and up to the eyebrow girl / gurl [7] nickname for a drag queen from a fellow queen go Mary-Kate [2]

  8. When is the May full moon? Why is it called the flower ... - AOL

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    May's title simply refers to the many flowers that grow during the month. The name is attributed to the Algonquin people. Other names for the flower moon include:

  9. Queen Elizabeth thinks this completely normal word is “vulgar”

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    According to Us Weekly, a palace source says the Queen finds the word “pregnant” to be a “vulgar” word. Here are 8 more words you will never hear anyone in the royal family say.