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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 6, 2011 9:01:42 GMT
I have no idea what either of you are talking about. Just google it. Perhaps not at work though..........
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Post by patricklondon on Dec 6, 2011 17:19:05 GMT
Nurse! Some mindbleach, quick!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2013 14:51:28 GMT
I wonder what on earth the heebie-jeebies were. Nobody seems to get them anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2013 17:55:05 GMT
highfalutin, hoity toity, riffraff.... do people under the age of 30 have any idea of the meaning of these words?
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Post by mossie on Mar 7, 2013 19:28:08 GMT
Mumbo jumbo, or is that non PC
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2013 16:29:15 GMT
Must not be. Didn't give me a hissy fit, anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2014 6:26:53 GMT
I encountered the term "9x" the other day, as in "she's a 9x."
Since the internet is a wonderful tool, I was able to determine that this is Vietnamese slang to refer to anybody born in the 1990's. This is totally different from our own confused generation Y, because it is a positive term to refer to the new up-and-coming dynamic generation born just as Vietnam freed its economy. Such people are also considered to be rebellious, fashionable and can speak foreign languages. Frankly, I thought it was a brilliant shortcut to convey so many meanings.
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Post by mossie on Apr 16, 2014 15:27:24 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Apr 22, 2014 12:01:04 GMT
Those words seem to come from a poem Mossie....the way the person has painted the rock black gives it a look of being transparent - if you look hard enough.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2014 17:20:02 GMT
I finally looked up the origin of the word nincompoop.
Most dictionaries say that the word is of unknown origin even though it dates back to the 17th century, but one logical explanation that I came across forwards the theory that it may come from the Latin non compos mentis -- "not mentally competent."
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Post by htmb on Aug 17, 2014 17:35:34 GMT
It was one of my mother's favorite words and I always knew what she meant.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 18, 2014 14:34:25 GMT
Our Latin teacher conveyed his disgust at a wrong answer by shouting "Clotis Ineptus!" To this day I hold onto the idea he meant "You stupid clot" or better still " You inept arsehole"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2016 16:17:18 GMT
Using the word "nincompoop" recently, I found myself wondering from where on earth such a word could come. Apparently, as is often the case with "oo" words, it might come from the Dutch nicht om poep, "the female relative of a fool." It is also pointed out that there used to be an English verb "poop" which meant to fool or cheat, and this also came from the Dutch poep -- to shit or fart. And as we all know, we have kept this meaning for poop in the English language.
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Post by mossie on Apr 26, 2016 14:23:14 GMT
So what was the poop deck on the old galleons for ??
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 14:01:37 GMT
Here's a word that I encountered for the first time in my life today: tombstoning
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Post by chexbres on Jul 23, 2016 7:26:03 GMT
You have to wonder how some of us survived our childhoods...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2017 21:00:38 GMT
Today on an early evening talk show in France, they were talking and laughing about a new political poll that examined the sexual practices of people based on their political leanings and boy, it was a real eye opener but you don't want to know! (Yes you do, but I'm not telling you.) However, there was a lot of talk about something I had never heard of: bifre -- I had to look it up, and then I looked up the English translation, which I had never encountered either but which is super easy to understand: "dick slapping" All of this made me realise that I am falling behind the times more and more.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 4, 2019 6:09:12 GMT
I had never encountered the term "snowflake" before, referring to human beings. I had to look it up.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 4, 2019 6:27:52 GMT
You are behind the times! I thought it had been discussed somewhere on anyport. In fact, I thought that was where I learned the term. It's pretty perfect as a description.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 4, 2019 7:12:05 GMT
Living in a non English speaking country, I miss many words of pop culture now.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 4, 2019 14:22:36 GMT
I had never encountered the term "snowflake" before, referring to human beings. I had to look it up. “Snowflake” is always used in a sneering, condescending way, not in the admiring way we describe a real one-of-a-kind crystal form of frozen water.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 4, 2019 15:10:55 GMT
"Flake" already existed, though, even back in my time.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 4, 2019 23:25:31 GMT
But “Flake” is totally different from “snowflake” in their slang meanings.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 5, 2019 5:49:45 GMT
Yes, but they are both negative.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 2, 2019 17:01:36 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on May 2, 2019 19:10:47 GMT
I like beans. Beans make me fart.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 3, 2021 15:00:40 GMT
This thread deserved to be revived. I'm sure that all of us have encountered more words worthy of inclusion.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 3, 2021 15:32:32 GMT
I know what a pillock is but I don’t know why.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2021 19:54:45 GMT
One of my sister's favorite words, which she has never looked up because she didn't want to ruin it for herself: petcock
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Post by mickthecactus on May 3, 2021 20:48:32 GMT
In what sense did she use it?!
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