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  2. Spanish profanity - Wikipedia

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    Manflor (combination of the English loanword "man" and the word flor meaning "flower") and its variant manflora (a play on manflor using the word flora) are used in Mexico and in the US to refer, usually pejoratively, to a lesbian. (In Eastern Guatemala, the variation mamplor is used.) It is used in very much the same way as the English word ...

  3. Güey - Wikipedia

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    Güey (Spanish pronunciation:; also spelled guey, wey or we) is a word in colloquial Mexican Spanish that is commonly used to refer to any person without using their name. . Though typically (and originally) applied only to males, it can also be used for females (although when using slang, women would more commonly refer to another woman as "chava" [young woman] or "vieja" [old lady])

  4. La chingada - Wikipedia

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    La chingada is a term commonly used in colloquial, even crass, Mexican Spanish that refers to various conditions or situations of, generally, negative connotations. The word is derived from the verb chingar, "to fuck".

  5. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.

  6. 27 Stories Of Tourists Having Really Cringy Moments While ...

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    Image credits: Glittering_Bid1112 #5. Staying with my brother in a hotel in Orlando. We are both Germans, my brother‘s english is mediocre at best. We wanted to start the next day early.

  7. Mat (profanity) - Wikipedia

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    The mat-word "хуй" ("khuy") in Max Vasmer's Russisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [] (Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language). Heidelberg, 1950–1958. Mat (Russian: мат; матерщи́на / ма́терный язы́к, matershchina / materny yazyk) is the term for vulgar, obscene, or profane language in Russian and some other Slavic language communities.

  8. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    French OVNI (Objet Volant Non Identifié) calques English UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) In some dialects of French, the English term "weekend" becomes la fin de semaine ("the end of week"), a calque, but in some it is left untranslated as le week-end, a loanword. French cor anglais (literally English horn) is a near-calque of English French ...

  9. YA - Wikipedia

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    Ya (river), a river in Tynset municipality in Innlandet county, Norway Yet another (YA), a common initial part of acronyms YoungArts (YA), a scholarship program for American high school students