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The term bombshell is a forerunner to the term "sex symbol" used to describe popular women regarded as very attractive. [1] [2] The Online Etymology Dictionary by Douglas Harper attests the usage of the term in this meaning since 1942. Bombshell has a longer history in its other, more general figurative meaning of a "shattering or devastating ...
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In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
In British English, the thinking man's crumpet or thinking woman's crumpet is a humorous term for a person who is popular with the opposite sex because of their intelligence and their physical attractiveness. [1] The expression is derived from the slang use of the term "crumpet" to refer to a woman who is regarded as an object of sexual desire. [2]
Regardless, “zhuzh” — the pronunciation sounds a bit like "jouj" — is in fact a real word, meaning “to fix, to tidy; to smarten up,” according to Green’s Dictionary of Slang.
Negative data, but I can tell you that the 1971 edition of the Complete Oxford English Dictionary gives no meanings of the word other than the primary one of (brutally summarizing) a slang term for a young man, which emerged in New York in early 1883 and initially referred to (in the context of the "aesthetic" craze of that time) a "swell" or ...