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Futuwwa (Arabic: فتوة, "young-manliness") [1] was a conception of adolescent moral behavior around which myriad institutions of Medieval confraternity developed. With characteristics similar to chivalry and virtue, these communal associations of Arab men gained significant influence as stable social units that exerted religious, military, and political influence in much of the Islamic world.
The term swain, from Old Norse sveinn, originally meant young man or servant, even as a Norwegian court title) entered English c.1150 as "young man attendant upon a knight" i.e. squire, or junior rank, as in boatswain and coxswain, but now usually means a boyfriend (since 1585) or a country lad (farm laborer since 1579; especially a young ...
Sheigetz or shegetz (שייגעץ or in Hebrew שֵׁיְגֶּץ; alternative Romanizations incl. shaygetz, shaigetz, sheygets) with the alternative form shkotz (plural: sheygetses and shkotzim, respectively [1]) is a Yiddish word that has entered English to refer to a non-Jewish boy or young man. It may also be used by an observant Jew when ...
It was generally a term of affection and literally means "Ganymede" in Latin, but it was also used as a term of insult when directed toward a grown man. [2] The word derives from the proper noun Catamitus , the Latinized form of Ganymede, the name of the beautiful Trojan youth abducted by Zeus to be his companion and cupbearer, according to ...
Earlier: Young Thug’s lawyer explained that the meaning of “P” in Young Thug & Gunna’s hit track “Pushin P” is “Pushing Positivity.” “It means, any circumstance you’re in, if ...
Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis museum in Athens.. Though the word ephebos (from epi "upon" + hebe "youth", "early manhood" [3]) can simply refer to the adolescent age of young men of training age, its main use is for the members, exclusively from that age group, of an official institution (ephebia) that saw to building them into citizens, but especially to training them as soldiers ...
The ephebic oath was an oath sworn by young men of Classical Athens, typically eighteen-year-old sons of Athenian citizens, upon induction into the military academy, the Ephebic College, [1] graduation from which was required to attain status as citizens.
lazy man ōe hó͘ lān: 畫虎𡳞 to draw the tiger's penis boast – Siâu – Pe̍h-ōe-jī Hàn-jī literal meaning English translation Notes siâu: 潲 semen: chia̍h siâu: 食潲 to eat semen no way gê-siâu: 㤉潲 to loathe, dislike gia̍t-siâu: 孽潲 be naughty hau-siâu: 嘐潲 boast For example, Mái thiaⁿ i teh hau-siâu!