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Dictionary.com implies that the origins for the two meanings had little to do with each other. [116] out of pocket To be crazy, wild, or extreme, sometimes to an extent that is considered too far. [3] [117] owned Used to refer to defeat in a video game, or domination of an opposition. Also less commonly used to describe defeat in sports.
If you’ve seen someone accused of “yapping” and wondered what it means, the answer isn’t complicated. To “yap” still means to talk excessively, but the old-school term has found new ...
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Yap (surname), Hakka and Minnan romanization of the common Asian surname Ye Yap Ah Loy (1837–1885), founder of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Yap Kwan Seng (1846–1902), the last Chinese kapitan of Kuala Lumpur
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
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.
Porzana parva Eggs of little crake. The little crake (Zapornia parva) is a very small waterbird of the family Rallidae. parva is Latin for "small". [2] This species was long included in the genus Porzana.
Jonathon Green, in his 1999 book The Cassell Dictionary of Slang, defines slang as "A counter language, the language of the rebel, the outlaw, the despised and the marginal". [6] Recognising that there are many definitions, he goes on to say, "Among the many descriptions of slang, one thing is common, it is a long way from mainstream English".