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Polari, a jargon that began in European ports and evolved into a shorthand used in gay subcultures, influences much of today's slang in words like "zhuzh," "drag," "camp" and "femme."
Polari Palare, Parlary, Palarie, Palari Region United Kingdom Native speakers None Language family English-based slang and other Indo-European influences Language codes ISO 639-3 pld Glottolog pola1249 This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA ...
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
Ethnographic map of the Senior jüz in Kazakhstan in the early 20th century, following M. S. Mukanov (1991). [3]Historically, the Senior jüz (Kazakh: Ұлы жүз, ۇلى ءجۇز, romanized: Ūly jüz) inhabited the northern lands of the former Chagatai Ulus of the Mongol Empire, in the Ili River and Chu River basins, in today's South-Eastern Kazakhstan and China's Ili Kazakh Autonomous ...
The online lexicon on Tuesday announced its largest-ever update along with 650 brand new words and phrases, including zhuzh, amirite, brownface, janky, MeToo, sharent, whitesplain, DGAF and GOAT. ...
Ilana Glazer’s 3-year-old daughter knows what she likes and what she doesn’t — including when it comes to her mom’s style!. Glazer sat down with Makho Ndlovu for the Jan. 16 episode of ...
The ZhuZhus is about 8-year-old [9] Frankie Pamplemousse, who lives in Anytown [10] with her parents who run a plumbing home business called Pamplemouse Plumbing. [11] She owns four talking hamsters called the ZhuZhus; Pipsqueak, Mr. Squiggles, Num Nums, and Chunk, as they have adventures in their town.
The etymology of "Finn" is uncertain: it may derive from Germanic translations of the Finnish suo ("fen") [39] or from the proposed Proto-Germanic *finne "wanderers", "hunting-folk". [205] Suomi, the endonym and exonym in some other Finnic and Baltic languages: Uncertain etymology.