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Pughaw means sky blue, while lunhaw is fresh leaf green (i.e., neither brownish nor yellowish). Humor and jokes of a sexual or derogatory nature that would otherwise be described as "blue" in English (e.g., "blue comedy", "blue joke") are called "green" in Philippine English. This is a calque of the Hispanic term chiste verde.
Blue Sky, a rainbow code for the Fairey Fireflash air-to-air missile; Blue Sky navigation pod, an airborne navigational/attack pod; Blue Sky (artist) (born 1938), American painter and sculptor formerly known as Warren Edward Johnson; Blue Sky Solar Racing, a solar car racing team based at the University of Toronto
The blue sky and green vegetables were considered shades of a single color which could even include black as its darkest hue in some contexts. Modern Standard Mandarin makes the blue-green distinction using lǜ (綠; 绿 'leafy') for green and lán (藍; 蓝 'indigo') for blue. Qīng was associated with health, prosperity, and harmony.
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
Lantian Graber was born in 1991 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a mother of Chinese descent, an acupuncturist by trade, and a mathematics teacher father of Swiss descent. [1] [2] Her mother, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and emigrated in the 1980s, named her daughter "Lántiān" (), meaning "blue sky" in Mandarin Chinese, as a wish for her to have "boundless freedom". [1]
CB slang is the distinctive anti-language, argot, or cant which developed among users of Citizens Band radio (CB), especially truck drivers in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s, [1] when it was an important part of the culture of the trucking industry.
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 ...
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.