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Naco (fem. naca) is a pejorative word often used in Mexican Spanish that may be translated into English as "low-class", "uncultured", "vulgar" or "uncivilized ". [1] A naco (Spanish: ⓘ) is usually associated with lower socio-economic classes. Although, it is used across all socioeconomic classes, when associated with middle - upper income ...
By extension, the term applied to an evil spell or charm, or a jinx ("It has Gualichu"). In this sense the word has evolved into gualicho and still survives in the local folklore of Chile , Argentina , south of Brazil and Uruguay , in the form of a noun and a verb ( engualichar , to cast an evil spell on somebody or something).
In the context of Islam, a faajir (Arabic: فاجر fājir; plural فجرة fajarah) is a "wicked evil-doer", i.e. a "sinner by action". [1] Compare kafir, a "sinner by disbelief in Allah". The word appears in The Qur'an in Surah Abasa: اُولٰٓٮِٕكَ هُمُ الۡكَفَرَةُ الۡفَجَرَةُ
[7] [6] There are no evil fairies, or the mention of fairies, until Charles Perrault's version, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood [8] [9] and the Brothers Grimm fairytale, Little Briar Rose. [2] In the 1959 Disney film Sleeping Beauty, the word "evil" is used to refer to Maleficent, and her name also means evil-doer. [10] T. Kingfisher. Author of ...
In 1934, at age 49, Slaughter began in films. Usually cast as a villain, his first film was Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn , a Victorian melodrama filmed cheaply with Slaughter as the obvious evil-doer, and identified as such at the beginning of the play. In the old melodramatic style, each main member of the cast is introduced before ...
Accused rapist rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs hired men to patrol his parties and recruit young women for “intimate” time with him — claiming it was “an honor” to be asked, a targeted ...
Small-cap resurgence. Small caps were one of the beneficiaries of the post-Trump election rally. The Russell 2000 small-cap index jumped more than 5% on Wednesday for its best day in nearly two years.
Born to James Earl Carter Sr. and Lillian Gordy Carter on Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter lived to age 100, making him the oldest former president before his death and the longest ...