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In Jewish mythology, a dybbuk (/ ˈ d ɪ b ə k /; Yiddish: דיבוק, from the Hebrew verb דָּבַק dāḇaq meaning 'adhere' or 'cling') is a malicious possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. [1] It supposedly leaves the host body once it has accomplished its goal, sometimes after being exorcised. [2 ...
Dead Euphemistic: Croak [7] To die Slang: Crossed the Jordan Died Biblical/Revivalist The deceased has entered the Promised Land (i.e. Heaven) Curtains Death Theatrical The final curtain at a dramatic performance Dead as a dodo [2] Dead Informal The 'dodo', flightless bird from the island of Mauritius hunted to extinction Dead as a doornail [1]
Deadnaming is the act of calling a transgender or non-binary person by their birth name after they have chosen a new name. [1] Many transgender people change names as part of gender transition, and wish for their former name (deadname) to be kept private.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
The human skull is used universally as a symbol of death. Death is the end of life ; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.
Anubis, guardian of the dead, [1] mummification, and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion; Aqen, a rarely mentioned deity in the Book of the Dead; Assessors of Maat, charged with judging the souls of the dead in the afterlife; Duamutef, one of the four sons of Horus; Hapi, one of the four sons of Horus; Imset, one of the four sons of Horus
Aboulomania – indecisiveness (aboulo- (Greek) meaning irresolution or indecision); Andromania – human sexual behaviour and desire towards males in females (andro- (Greek) meaning man, men, male or masculine) Can be replaced by hypersexuality, nymphomania, cytheromania, hysteromania or aphrodisiomania.
The term deadpan first emerged early in the 20th century, as a compound word (sometimes spelled as two words) combining "dead" and "pan" (a slang term for the face). It appeared in print as early as 1915, in an article about a former baseball player named Gene Woodburn written by his former manager Roger Bresnahan. Bresnahan described how ...