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  2. Stupidity - Wikipedia

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    Stupidity is a quality or state of being stupid, or an act or idea that exhibits properties of being stupid. [4] In a character study of "The Stupid Man" attributed to the Greek philosopher Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BC), stupidity was defined as "mental slowness in speech or action". The modern English word "stupid" has a broad range of ...

  3. Varhadi dialect - Wikipedia

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    Apart from this, there are many words & phrases indigenous to Varhadi i.e. common to neither standard Marathi nor Hindi. For instance, to give stress on a request or an order, the suffix zo ( जो ) (singular) or zā ( जा ) (plural) is used like " Māhyā porīchyā lagnāle ye zā ( माह्या पोरीच्या ...

  4. Hindustani profanity - Wikipedia

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    Many English translations may not offer the full meaning of the profanity used in the context. [1] Hindustani profanities often contain references to incest and notions of honor. [2] Hindustani profanities may have origins in Persian, Arabic, Turkish or Sanskrit. [3] Hindustani profanity is used such as promoting racism, sexism or offending ...

  5. Talk : List of ethnic slurs/removed entries - Wikipedia

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    (Used in Indian & Pakistani) Used in the subcontinent to describe a person of Oriental (Chinese, Japanese etc.) origin. Word is derived from Hindi 'chapata' meaning 'flat', used to refer to flat nose and facial features Chapetón / chapetona (Latin America) adjective and noun: a newly-arrived person from Europe. [6] Chapín

  6. Retard (pejorative) - Wikipedia

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    The English language, along with other European ones, adopted the word and used it as similar meaning, slow and delayed. In English, the word "to decelerate " would become a more common term than "to retard", while in others like French [ 9 ] or Catalan, [ 10 ] retard is still in common usage to mean 'delay' ( tard ).

  7. KISS principle - Wikipedia

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    KISS, an acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid!", is a design principle first noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] First seen partly in American English by at least 1938, KISS implies that simplicity should be a design goal.

  8. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    (slang) the testicles, from goli Hindi for ball. gor blimey exclamation of surprise, also cor blimey (originally from "God blind me") Gordon Bennett! expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, frustration. gormless stupid or clumsy go-slow a protest in which workers deliberately work slowly (US: slowdown or work to rule) green fingers

  9. Stupid (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Stupid refers to stupidity, a lack of intelligence. Stupid may also refer to: Stupid (art movement), a group of artists in Cologne, Germany, in the 1920s;