Apr 19, 2022 · @Juhasz I think you're right, I also think that the book is saying that "ano" is the more formal term of assent and can be translated as "yes" but that "jo" is the informal or …

I have observed that in my work place, whenever a mail is sent to more than one person( like an information, meeting request or a notice etc.), the mail starts with the salutation "Dear All". This,

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This question ought to be reopened, because the current answers are basically wrong. Whether or not other usage in youth culture pre-dates it, sick became slang for pretty much the …

Oct 21, 2019 · What is the word for someone trying to seem/be deep and intelligent, but really they are shallow, and not at all being insightful. Pedant is about rules, so that is disqualified, …

Recent slang dictionaries on the origin of 'wank' and 'wanker' I note at the outset that every recent slang dictionary ultimately concedes that "origin unknown [or obscure]" remains the final word …

Nov 3, 2011 · A sodomist: low coll.: Mid-C. 19-20; ob.-2. Hence, a pejorative, orig. and gen. violent: late C. 19-20. Often used in ignorance of its origin: cf. bugger. So your sense of "sod" …

Oct 1, 2016 · A tea-party: late C.19–early 20 coll[oquial]. So that brings the jocular variants on a tea-party theme to a crooked baker's dozen ( bun-beat , bun-feast , bun-fight , bun-struggle , …

Aug 10, 2016 · To be under a misapprehension, or muddled, about something, as ' 'fraid he's got his knickers in a twist on that one': since late 1960s: coll[oquial]. Cf. get (one's) wires crossed, …

When a term originates in northern English dialects as "ta" appears to, I often begin by looking at nordic languages as much of northern England was conquered by the Vikings and the parts of …