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Making out is a term of American origin dating back to at least 1949, [1] and is used to refer to kissing, including extended French kissing or necking [2] (heavy kissing of the neck, and above), [3] or to acts of non-penetrative sex such as heavy petting ("intimate contact, just short of sexual intercourse" [2]).
A study on the English M6 motorway found that 29% of accidents and breakdowns caused slowdowns in the uninvolved opposite lanes. [7] According to a 2003 study in the U.S., rubbernecking was the cause of 16% of distraction-related traffic accidents. [ 8 ]
Negging ("to neg", meaning "negative feedback") is an act of emotional manipulation whereby a person makes a deliberate backhanded compliment or otherwise flirtatious remark to another person to undermine their confidence and attempt to engender in them a need for the manipulator's approval. [1]
Defenestration (from Neo-Latin de fenestrā [1]) is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. [2] The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618 which became the spark that started the Thirty Years' War .
Fleurette, meaning small flower, was used in the 16th century in some sonnets [3] and texts, and has since fallen out of use. [4] [5] [6] This expression is still used in French, often mockingly, although the English loanword, "to flirt", is in the common vernacular. Flirting in the English language has the same meaning as to "conter fleurette ...
If they roll the main, they win (throwing in or nicking). [1]: 169 If they roll a 2 or a 3, they lose (throwing out or outing). [1]: 169 If they roll an 11 or 12, the result depends on the main: [1]: 169 with a main of 5 or 9, they throw out with both an 11 and a 12; with a main of 6 or 8, they throw out with an 11 but nick with a 12;
To flesh out is to add flesh to a skeleton, or metaphorically to add substance to an incomplete rendering. To flush out is to cause game fowl to take to flight, or to frighten any quarry from a place of concealment. Standard: The forensic pathologist will flesh out the skull with clay. Standard: The beaters flushed out the game with drums and ...
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .