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Abderite, a reference to Democritus, native of Abdera; later acquired the generic meaning of "scoffer" Abderites, archetypical fools in classical Greece, akin of the Wise Men of Gotham; The satirical book Die Abderiten, eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte by Christoph Martin Wieland; Abderites, a genus of Paucituberculata from South America
Scoff or SCOFF may refer to: . Scoff, a colloquial term for the act of eating, usually quickly "Scoff" a song by Nirvana on their album Bleach; Scoff, a colloquial term for fellatio
Proverbs 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of several wisdom literature collections, with the heading in 1:1 may be intended to regard Solomon as the traditional author of the whole book, but the dates of the individual collections are difficult to determine, and the book ...
Gaboury (French: nickname for a joker derived from Old French gabeor "mocker, scoffer, joker") is a surname.. All Gabourys in North America (including the spelling variations of Gabourie, Gabaree, Gabree, and Gibree) are related because they are all descendants of Antoine Gaboury, who left France in 1659 for the Quebec settlement in New France.
emember "Rumplestiltskin"? An impish man offers to help a girl with the . impossible chore she's been tasked with: spinning heaps of straw into gold. It's a story that's likely to give independent women the jitters; living beholden to a demanding king and a conniving mythical creature is no one's idea of romance.
A whole millennium of idyls sleeps in my heart; I am a pseudo-skeptic, a pseudo-scoffer. [1] It soon acquired its usual meaning where a claimed skeptic is accused of excessive sureness in turning initial doubts into certainties. In 1908 Henry Louis Mencken wrote on Friedrich Nietzsche's criticism of philosopher David Strauss that:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also has its own (very specific) definition of the multi-purpose sauce. According to its guidelines, in order for a product to be labeled and sold as ...
The reason why this is an enticing option: Bills advanced through the budget reconciliation process cannot be filibustered, meaning they can be approved by a simple majority in the Senate — not ...