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From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a male person who dressed in an extremely fashionable manner (a dandy) or a conspicuous citified person who was visiting a rural location, a "city slicker". In the 1960s, dude evolved to mean any male person, a meaning that slipped into mainstream American slang in the 1970s.
(M./Mme) Machin/Machine (familiar terms, used when one does not wish take the trouble to think of a more specific term); [21] (Un) Gazier originally, a man who worked in gas transport; nowadays, it is a familiar way to say "Someone" (mostly for a man; this term is rare for women, and in such case, the correct word is the feminine form "Gazière ...
According to Dictionary.com, the term femboy originated in the 1990s and is a compound from the words fem (an abbreviation of feminine and femme) and boy. [1] [2] One early usage can be seen in a 1992 piece by gay artist Ed Check. [3] The variant femboi uses the LGBT term boi. [1] By 2000, the term boi [4] had come to denote "a young ...
Fuddy-duddy" (or "fuddy duddy" or "fuddy-dud") [1] is a term for a person who is fussy while old-fashioned, traditionalist, conformist or conservative, sometimes almost to the point of eccentricity or geekiness. It is a slang term, mildly derogatory but sometimes affectionate too and can be used to describe someone with a zealous focus on order ...
Negative data, but I can tell you that the 1971 edition of the Complete Oxford English Dictionary gives no meanings of the word other than the primary one of (brutally summarizing) a slang term for a young man, which emerged in New York in early 1883 and initially referred to (in the context of the "aesthetic" craze of that time) a "swell" or ...
In the case of friendships between lesbians and gay men, the term dyke diva describes the gay man in the relationship. A straight man of platonic affinity with gay men is a fag stag; again, the usage is rare in mainstream sexual culture. For men who have many lesbian friends the slang terms dutch boy, lesbro or dyke tyke apply. [5] [6]
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(slang, derogatory) foolish person, used esp. in northern England but also common elsewhere. Derived from the Northern English term pillicock, a dialect term for penis, although the connection is rarely made in general use. pinch * to steal. pisshead (vulgar) someone who regularly gets heavily drunk (cf. BrE meaning of pissed).