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The founders then stormed the Undergraduate Council of Students meetings covered in body paint until they received funding sufficient to print The Noser five times a semester. [3] The first article was "Brown Noser to Replace Daily Herald as Campus's Premier Comedy Newspaper," a joke on Brown University's oldest publication, The Brown Daily ...
A slur that is used to refer to black people, people of African heritage. It derives from the colour of a banana's skin, which is yellow or brown, and is therefore seen as an offensive way to describe black and coloured people's skin colour. [39] Balija Turkey, the Balkans: Bosnian people An ethnic Bosniak or a member of the Bosnian diaspora ...
The term was first applied by the Dutch colonists of New Amsterdam to Connecticuters and other residents of New England, possibly from Dutch Janke ('Johnny') or from Jan Kees ('John Cheese'). [235] Seppo and Septic From Cockney rhyming slang, using the unrhymed word of "septic tank" in reference to "Yank" above. Canuck
Examples of journalists employing the cliché "x is the new y", e.g. "Black is the new brown" or "Basel is the new St Tropez". Even after a recent trend for certain journalists to preface their remarks with "At the risk of appearing in Private Eye ...", remarks of this kind have not prevented many such journalists from receiving entries in the ...
The Oxford English Dictionary conjectures that this expression could also have derived from U.S. military slang for sycophants, "brown-nosers", while also mentioning the popular etymology that derives it from the awards system of the Brownies. The term "brownie" in the sense of "brown-noser" was in use in the 1940s.
Jon Daniels says all the right things, but the state of this team after firing the manager is his doing.
A shade of dark brown used to be known as "nigger brown" or simply "nigger"; [18] other colours were also prefixed with the word. Usage for colors continued for some time after it was no longer acceptable for people. [19] Nigger brown commonly identified a colour in the clothing industry and advertising of the early 20th century. [20]
Brown pulled out his sideline read after scoring a TD before halftime. SCORE UPDATE: Eagles 24, Chiefs 0 Another extra point is good and Philadelphia is up 24-0 with 1:35 left in the first half.