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The term swain, from Old Norse sveinn, originally meant young man or servant, even as a Norwegian court title) entered English c.1150 as "young man attendant upon a knight" i.e. squire, or junior rank, as in boatswain and coxswain, but now usually means a boyfriend (since 1585) or a country lad (farm laborer since 1579; especially a young ...
Futuwwa (Arabic: فتوة, "young-manliness") [1] was a conception of adolescent moral behavior around which myriad institutions of Medieval confraternity developed. With characteristics similar to chivalry and virtue, these communal associations of Arab men gained significant influence as stable social units that exerted religious, military, and political influence in much of the Islamic world.
The Water Services Regulation Authority, or Ofwat, is the body responsible for economic regulation of the privatised water and sewerage industry in England and Wales.Ofwat's main statutory duties include protecting the interests of consumers, securing the long-term resilience of water supply and wastewater systems, and ensuring that companies carry out their functions and are able to finance them.
Young men may refer to: Adolescent males; Young Men (Lebanon), a Lebanese Christian militia during the Lebanese Civil War 1978–1986; Young Men (organization), a Mormon youth organization; The Young Men, a 1968–1971 Hong Kong folk/rock band; Young Men, a 1950s superhero comic published by Atlas Comics
Chicken can be used, usually by gay men referring to other gay men, to mean a young gay man or young-appearing gay man.. Author Bruce Rodgers defines the term as "1. any boy under the age of consent, heterosexual, fair of face, and unfamiliar with homosexuality ("So many chickens were flapping around that I thought we were touring Colonel Sanders' plantation”) 2. juvenile, youthful, young ...
Earlier: Young Thug’s lawyer explained that the meaning of “P” in Young Thug & Gunna’s hit track “Pushin P” is “Pushing Positivity.” “It means, any circumstance you’re in, if ...
Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis museum in Athens.. Though the word ephebos (from epi "upon" + hebe "youth", "early manhood" [3]) can simply refer to the adolescent age of young men of training age, its main use is for the members, exclusively from that age group, of an official institution (ephebia) that saw to building them into citizens, but especially to training them as soldiers ...
"Be a man." It's a common phrase, used without even thinking. While these three little words may seem simple, the phrase implicates a deeper issue within our society. Assigned gender roles have ...