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Loser (hand gesture) Child making the loser gesture. The loser is a hand gesture made by extending the right thumb and index fingers, leaving the other fingers closed to create the letter L, interpreted as "loser", and generally given as a demeaning sign. [1] Sometimes this is accompanied by raising the hand to the giver's forehead.
lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.
Chance. High. Rock paper scissors (also known by several other names and word orders, see § Names) is an intransitive hand game, usually played between two people, in which each player simultaneously forms one of three shapes with an outstretched hand. These shapes are "rock" (a closed fist), "paper" (a flat hand), and "scissors" (a fist with ...
In 1913, a journalist well known for rhyming slang, for the New York Evening, by the name of "T.A. Dorgan," published the phrase "my dogs are barking" in reference to his feet. From that point forward the word has been used as slang for feet. In the early 2020s the term "dogs out" gained popularity referring to someone's toes being exposed.
Loser (hand gesture), a hand gesture made by extending the thumb and index fingers, leaving the other fingers closed to create the letter L, interpreted as "loser", and generally given as a demeaning sign. Loser (mountain), a mountain in Ausseerland, Styria, Austria. One of the three peaks in the Leuser Range. The website Loser.com.
Lovable losers are often defined by ambitions exceeding their capabilities, and by their over-zealous, and sometimes self-defeating, efforts to obtain their desires. [1] They are prone to fall for get-rich-quick schemes, and advertised shortcuts to finding wealth, success, or love, and to act impulsively in the pursuit of these things, [1] but ...
Louis (948– c. 954), Prince of France and son of King Louis IV of France. Louis, Count of Évreux (1276–1319), Prince of France. Louis of France (1264–1276), Prince of France and heir apparent of France. Louis (1309–1328), Count of Chartres. Louis I, Count of Nevers (1272–1322), Count of Nevers and Rethel.
The following words are commonly used and included in French dictionaries. le pull: E. pullover, sweater, jersey. le shampooing, [1] the shampoo; le scoop, in the context of a news story or as a simile based on that context. While the word is in common use, the Académie française recommends a French synonym, "exclusivité". [2] le selfie.