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“Bull Durham” cast member Robert Wuhl, center, attends the premiere at the Carolina Theatre in Durham.
The term has been used to describe the behavior of politicians and media personalities on both the left and the right sides of the political spectrum. [36] Some examples include: American journalists used the word "gaslighting" to describe the actions of Donald Trump during the 2016 US presidential election and his term as president. [37] [38]
While its origin is obscure, it is usually considered to be first attested to around 1475. [1] In modern usage, the term fuck and its derivatives (such as fucker and fucking ) are used as a noun , a verb , an adjective , an interjection or an adverb .
A reed warbler raising the chick of a common cuckoo; the term "cuckold" is derived from the cuckoo's tendency to lay eggs in the nests of other birds.. The word cuckold derives from the cuckoo bird, alluding to its brood parasitism, or tendency to lay its eggs in the nests of other birds.
A golliwog in the form of a child's soft toy Florence Kate Upton's Golliwogg in formal minstrel attire in The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg in 1895. The golliwog, also spelled golliwogg or shortened to golly, is a doll-like character, created by cartoonist and author Florence Kate Upton, which appeared in children's books in the late 19th century, usually depicted as a type of ...
It has two possible values: True and False, which are special versions of 1 and 0 respectively and behave as such in arithmetic contexts. Also, a numeric value of zero (integer or fractional), the null value ( None ), the empty string, and empty containers (lists, sets , etc.) are considered Boolean false; all other values are considered ...
The term may have derived from the terms "lolly" (tongue) and "pop" (slap). The first references to the lollipop in its modern context date to the 1920s. [11] Alternatively, it may be a word of Romani origin, related to the Roma tradition of selling candy apples on a stick. Red apple in the Romani language is loli phaba. [12]