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English comedy actor Jimmy Edwards grew his trademark handlebar moustache in the late 1940s in order to disguise facial injuries sustained as a pilot in World War II. [ 8 ] In 1972, to win a $300 "best facial hair" prize offered by team owner Charlie O. Finley , Oakland A's pitcher Rollie Fingers grew a handlebar moustache which he sported ...
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is an English word-construction project by John Koenig, seeking to coin and define neologisms for emotions not yet described in language. [1] The project was launched as a website and YouTube channel, but was later compiled into a printed dictionary in 2021.
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
On YouTube, people commented about the pair's chemistry. One person said, "I’VE NEVER SEEN HER LAUGH OR CRY SO MUCH WITH ANYONE ELSE."
The word tattoo, or tattow in the 18th century, is a loanword from the Samoan word tatau, meaning "to strike", [2] [3] from Proto-Oceanic *sau₃ referring to a wingbone from a flying fox used as an instrument for the tattooing process. [4] The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of tattoo as "In 18th c
Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension .
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
Yes, yes, yes, yes, because they mean just that much to me.” Pennies, including a wheat penny, also known as the Lincoln penny or the Lincoln cent, which was introduced in 1909 and minted util 1958.