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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.
Listing price on eBay: $2,300 We love a cleverly designed vintage salt and pepper shaker. This adorable Japanese-made set includes a farmer holding a basket with two chickens (the shakers).
Technically, anything over 20 years old can be coined "vintage." But when you truly think of items worth this title, your brain doesn't go to Beanie Babies. Instead, it conjures up images of vinyl...
The word bimbo derives from the Italian bimbo, [4] a masculine-gender term that means "little or baby boy" or "young (male) child" (the feminine form of the Italian word is bimba). Use of this term began in the United States as early as 1919, and was a slang word used to describe an unintelligent [ 5 ] or brutish [ 6 ] man.
The term is commonly used to describe male actors and characters who tend to fall into two "babygirl" camps: soft-spoken men who possess traditionally feminine traits, and middle-aged antiheroes.
Pickaninny (also picaninny, piccaninny or pickininnie) is a pidgin word for a small child, possibly derived from the Portuguese pequenino ('boy, child, very small, tiny'). [1] It has been used as a racial slur for African American children and a pejorative term for Aboriginal children of the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand.
Typically used to describe just about any Bloomington townie, the term was popularized by the Academy Award-winning 1979 film “Breaking Away,” referencing the limestone-cutting, working-class ...
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