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Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with ...
Hence to "break one's duck": to score one's first run. c.f. US: "get the monkey off one's back" a term of endearment (n.) a bird of the family Anatidae (v.) to lower the head or body suddenly, to dodge (v.) to plunge under the surface of water (n.) a heavy cotton fabric (v.) Leaving very quickly. "He ducked out like five minutes ago" duff: of ...
something that happens only once; limited to one occasion (as an adjective, a shared synonym is one-shot; as a noun ["She is a one-off"; US: one of a kind]) on the back foot outclassed; outmanoeuvred by a competitor or opponent [125] on the piss
Its first printed use came as early as 1991 in William G. Hawkeswood's "One of the Children: An Ethnography of Identity and Gay Black Men," wherein one of the subjects used the word "tea" to mean ...
You might be surprised by how many popular movie quotes you're remembering just a bit wrong. 'The Wizard of Oz' Though most people say 'Looks like we're not in Kansas anymore,' or 'Toto, I don't think
One law for the rich and another for the poor; Opportunity does not knock until you build a door; One swallow does not make a summer; One who believes in Sword, dies by the Sword; One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people. Turkish Proverb [5] One year's seeding makes seven years weeding
Centrist leader François Bayrou has become France's latest prime minister, chosen by President Emmanuel Macron in a bid to end months of political turmoil. Bayrou, a 73-year-old mayor from the ...
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...