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A person who lives in the countryside, mountain people, [3] the agricultural worker, who cuts sugarcane, for example. [18] From a Taino compound word ("Jiba" meaning mountain or forest, and "iro" meaning man or men) [ 19 ] though commonly mistaken for originating from the Arabic ( Mofarite Arabic : جبري ( Jabre ), romanized: Jabre), in the ...
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The term mansplaining was inspired by an essay, "Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn't Get in Their Way", written by author Rebecca Solnit and published on TomDispatch.com on 13 April 2008. In the essay, Solnit told an anecdote about a man at a party who said he had heard she had written some books.
The Pete the Cat children’s book series often references the term, both in the characters’ dialogues and in the titles, for example, "Pete the Cat’s Groovy Guide to Kindness". Marvel Comics produced a Silver Age comic book entitled Groovy, subtitled "Cartoons, gags, jokes". Only three issues were published, dated March, May and July 1967.
Of the etymologies that do make connections with other Indo-European roots, man "the thinker" is the most traditional — that is, the word is connected with the root * men-"to think" (cognate to mind). This etymology relies on humans describing themselves as "those who think" (see Human self-reflection). This etymology, however, is not ...
This is a list of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom.In Canada and Australia, some of the American terms listed are widespread; however, in some cases, another usage is preferred.