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Wide boy is a British term for a man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing. According to the Oxford English Dictionary it is synonymous with spiv . [ 1 ] The word "wide" used in this sense means wide-awake or sharp-witted.
This is a glossary of words related to the Mafia, primarily the Sicilian Mafia and Italian American Mafia.. administration: the top-level "management" of an organized crime family -- the boss, underboss and consigliere.
The story is framed as a deliberate lesson on the part of the father. As Sarah Gauch comments in The adventures of Goha, the Wise Fool, [7] a book illustrated with the tentmakers' creations, "every tentmaker has a Goha... but whatever the Goha, it seems the favourite story is the tale 'Goha Gives His Son a Lesson About Life'."
Raina, also spelled Reyna, (Hindi: रैना) is also a Hindi given name and surname meaning “night.” Reina is also a Japanese name with different meanings depending on the kanji or hiragana symbols that are used to spell it, including (Japanese Kanji: 怜奈) meaning “wise.” [7]
As the boy settled in for his second night in the castle, half of a man fell down the chimney. The boy, again unafraid, shouted up the chimney that the other half was needed. The other half, hearing the boy, fell from the chimney and reunited with the rest. More men followed with human skulls and dead men's legs with which to play nine-pins ...
Stocks and Sauces. Whether you’re preserving your summer basil bounty in pesto sauce or have quarts of turkey stock left after making the most of your Thanksgiving leftovers, your freezer is the ...
Rafe is a given name for a male used in many countries across the world. If the name is English, Scandinavian or German it is of Old Norse origin (meaning "counsel of the wolf" or "wise wolf"), derived from the Old Norse Raðulfr (rað "counsel" + ulfr "wolf") through Old English Rædwulf.
In March, a mother was horrified to find a pedophile symbol on a toy she bought for her daughter. Although the symbol was not intentionally placed on the toy by the company who manufactured the ...