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With Spanish being a grammatically gendered language, one's sexuality can be challenged with a gender-inappropriate adjective, much as in English one might refer to a flamboyant man or a transgender man as her. Some words referring to a male homosexual end in an "a" but have the masculine article "el"—a deliberate grammatical violation.
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The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
Tori Spelling branded her eldest son a “jerk” for his risqué family prank that had her younger son worried about their elves being “big s*x addicts.”. The 51-year-old mother-of-five ...
(slang) Largely equivalent to "wanker" but less offensive; has the same literal meaning, i.e. one who masturbates ("tosses off"). (US: jerk). tosspot (colloquial, archaic) a drunkard; also used in the sense of "tosser". totty (informal, offensive to some) sexually alluring woman or women (more recently, also applied to males).
Cognate with Spanish and Portuguese cagar, ultimately from Latin cacare. cagata/cacata: Bullshit, crap. Vai a cagare/cacare: fuck you, fuck off. cappella: the glans of the penis. [10] scappellare: to lower the foreskin to uncover the glans. [11] cazzo (pl. cazzi: literally dick, cock, prick. Used in countless expressions to express a variety of ...
Substituting baristo for a male barista, when in fact barista is invariable in gender in Italian and Spanish (as are other words ending in the suffix -ista) is a hyperforeignism. In Italian (and Spanish), the gender is indicated by the article; il (el) barista for a male and la barista for a female.
Jerk (physics), an aspect of variable motion; Half of the clean and jerk, an Olympic weightlifting lift; Jerk (cooking), a style of cooking native to Jamaica; Jerk (dance), a 1960s fad dance; Jerkin', a dance