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Photograph by Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914); Famille napolitaine — a Neapolitan mother searching for lice in her son's hair.. Nitpicking is a term, first attested in 1956, that describes the action of giving too much attention to unimportant detail.
Defenestration (from Neo-Latin de fenestrā [1]) is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. [2] The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618 which became the spark that started the Thirty Years' War .
One writer described the "out-of-towners" stretching their necks to see New York while having misinformation shouted at them, and artist John Sloan depicted them as geese in a 1917 etching called Seeing New York. [4] Hawkers, touts and steerers were used to market the rubbernecking tours, also known as "gape wagons" or "yap wagons." [4]
A malapropism (/ ˈ m æ l ə p r ɒ p ɪ z əm /; also called a malaprop, acyrologia or Dogberryism) is the incorrect use of a word in place of a word with a similar sound, either unintentionally or for comedic effect, resulting in a nonsensical, often humorous utterance.
Making out is a term of American origin dating back to at least 1949, [1] and is used to refer to kissing, including extended French kissing or necking [2] (heavy kissing of the neck, and above), [3] or to acts of non-penetrative sex such as heavy petting ("intimate contact, just short of sexual intercourse" [2]).
If they roll the main, they win (throwing in or nicking). [1]: 169 If they roll a 2 or a 3, they lose (throwing out or outing). [1]: 169 If they roll an 11 or 12, the result depends on the main: [1]: 169 with a main of 5 or 9, they throw out with both an 11 and a 12; with a main of 6 or 8, they throw out with an 11 but nick with a 12;
Negging ("to neg", meaning "negative feedback") is an act of emotional manipulation whereby a person makes a deliberate backhanded compliment or otherwise flirtatious remark to another person to undermine their confidence and attempt to engender in them a need for the manipulator's approval. [1]
To write that someone insisted, speculated, or surmised can suggest the degree of the person's carefulness, resoluteness, or access to evidence, even when such things are unverifiable. To say that someone asserted or claimed something can call their statement's credibility into question, by emphasizing any potential contradiction or implying ...