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Loob. In Philippine culture, loob or kalooban refers to one's inner self, or, more specifically, to the internal dimension of a person's identity. Its external counterpart is labas - the physical, outward appearance. [1] Loob is a core concept in Filipino Psychology, a field which is unthinkable without both the internal and external dimensions ...
Fish or cut bait is a common English language colloquial expression, dating back to the 19th-century United States, that refers to division of complementary tasks. This expression has multiple uses that have evolved over time, but all generally convey that an important decision must be made, often immediately, and failing to make a choice is to make onesself a useless obstruction.
Tagalog profanity can refer to a wide range of offensive, blasphemous, and taboo words or expressions in the Tagalog language of the Philippines. Due to Filipino culture , expressions which may sound benign when translated back to English can cause great offense; while some expressions English speakers might take great offense to can sound ...
Jailbait. Jailbait is slang [1] [2] for a person who is younger than the legal age of consent for sexual activity and usually appears older, with the implication that a person above the age of consent might find them sexually attractive. [3] The term jailbait is derived from the fact that engaging in sexual activity with someone who is under ...
Crab mentality. Live crabs in a bucket. Look up crab mentality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crab mentality, also known as crab theory, [1] [2] crabs in a bucket [a] mentality, or the crab-bucket effect, is a way of thinking usually described by the phrase "if I can't have it, neither can you". [3]
e. Futanari (ふたなり, seldom: 二形, 双形, literally: dual form; 二成, 双成, literally: " [to be of] two kinds") is the Japanese word for hermaphroditism, which is also used in a broader sense for androgyny. [1] [2] : 79, 81. Beyond Japan, the term has come to be used to describe a commonly pornographic genre of eroge, manga, and ...
Boondocks. The boondocks is an American expression from the Tagalog (Filipino) word bundók ("mountain"). It originally referred to a remote rural area, [1] but now, is often applied to an out-of-the-way area considered backward and unsophisticated by city-folk. It can also occasionally refer to a mountain in both Filipino and American context.
A bolo (Tagalog: iták/gúlok, Ilocano: bunéng, Ibanag: badáng/aliwa, Pangasinan: baráng, Kapampangan: paláng, Bikol: tabák/minasbad, Cebuano: súndang/kampilan, Waray: sansibar, Hiligaynon: sandúko/binangon, Aklan: talibong) is a general term for traditional pre-colonial small- to medium-sized single-edged swords or large knives of the Philippines that function both as tools and weapons.