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Manflor (combination of the English loanword "man" and the word flor meaning "flower") and its variant manflora (a play on manflor using the word flora) are used in Mexico and in the US to refer, usually pejoratively, to a lesbian. (In Eastern Guatemala, the variation mamplor is used.) It is used in very much the same way as the English word ...
La chingada is a term commonly used in colloquial, even crass, Mexican Spanish that refers to various conditions or situations of, generally, negative connotations. The word is derived from the verb chingar, "to fuck".
Albert Vete (born 1993), Tongan rugby league player Brian Sterling-Vete or Brian Vete (born 1958), English author, entrepreneur and performer Vete Sakaio (in office 2010-), Tuvaluan politician
The colloquial abbreviation dates to the 1860s; the verb form of the word, meaning "to treat an animal," came a few decades later—according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest known usage is 1891 [3] —and was applied primarily in a horse-racing context ("He vetted the stallion before the race," "You should vet that horse before ...
"Vete" (transl. "Leave") is a song by Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny. It was released on November 21, 2019, through Rimas Entertainment , as the lead single from his second solo studio album YHLQMDLG (2020).
The word "veterinary" comes from the Latin veterinae meaning "working animals". "Veterinarian" was first used in print by Thomas Browne in 1646. [ 4 ] Although "vet" is commonly used as an abbreviation in all English-speaking countries, the occupation is formally referred to as a veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom and Ireland and now as a ...
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician bēt 𐤁 , Hebrew bēt ב , Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Syriac bēṯ ܒ and Arabic bāʾ ب . Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop b or the voiced labiodental fricative v .