Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The term derives from snob + -ative, modelled upon comparatives and superlatives. Thus, in its narrow sense, a snobbative is a pompous (phonetic) variant of a word. Consider the following hypercorrect pronunciations in Israeli Hebrew: [9]: 184 khupím is a snobbative of khofím (חופים ), which means "beaches";
It probably derives from 19th-century slang for a dandy and was originally an underworld slang term for money. [36] Rap was not an acronym for "random acts of poetry" used as speech-lyrics in contemporary music. The word means "to utter forcefully" and appeared as early as the year 1541. [37] Shit: see under "Profanity"
soft bread roll or a sandwich made from it (this itself is a regional usage in the UK rather than a universal one); in plural, breasts (vulgar slang e.g. "get your baps out, love"); a person's head (Northern Ireland). [21] barmaid *, barman a woman or man who serves drinks in a bar.
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).
I mean, I drank every single night of that era, and it just seemed normal. All of my friends were just wasted by five o’clock and we would sit around, get a six pack and play video golf or whatever.
'Snob' is a Britishism and the article (if it shouldn't just be a wiktionary entry) deserves a treatment of the development of the concept of snob from its origin as a "cobbler" to its present sense, but all the dreck about classism (especially the ahistorical bits) should be moved to another article.
The term Black Twitter comprises a large network of Black users on the platform and their loosely coordinated interactions, many of which accumulate into trending topics due to its size ...
While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.