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to strike a child with a paddle as a form of corporal punishment (dated usage) palette knife A knife with a broad, flat, flexible blade used in cooking. [49] (US: offset spatula) A knife used in painting to apply paint to a canvas or other surface. panda police car (slang) (US: zebra, black-and-white)
He kept a journal and corresponded with his mother and uncle during his period in Sydney from 1788 to March 1791. Southwell's letters had many references to the Aboriginal people of the Port Jackson district and included a brief vocabulary of their language. In his papers Southwell listed the verb 'to come' as "Coo-sé, Cō-cé, Cō-eé, Cō-é".
The slang usage of “mother,” says McLean, came from “Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ people who created an underground ballroom scene and Houses for members to find community and family,” for ...
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.
Mama and papa use speech sounds that are among the easiest to produce: bilabial consonants like /m/, /p/, and /b/, and the open vowel /a/.They are, therefore, often among the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies (babble words), and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves and to employ them subsequently as part of their baby-talk lexicon.
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
A baby mama (or baby momma, also baby mother) is a slang term for a mother who is not married to her child's father, although the term often carries other connotations as well. This term is associated with African Americans originally, coming from Jamaican Creole and finding its way into hip-hop music .
MILF: [27] An acronym slang term meaning "mother I'd like to fuck"; considered sexist and ageist by some and positive or neutral by others. Mrs. Robinson: Refers to a character in the 1967 feature film "The Graduate"; slang term referring to an older woman pursuing someone younger than herself, typically an adolescent male. (see "cougar" above)