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Butch, femme, drag, camp, zhuzh and more are now in common parlance, thanks to Polari, as well as some quite spicy terms, like cherry, dish and more (but more on that later).
Polari (from Italian parlare ' to talk ') is a form of slang or cant historically used primarily in the United Kingdom by some actors, circus and fairground performers, professional wrestlers, merchant navy sailors, criminals and prostitutes, and particularly among the gay subculture.
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. ...
Often, large dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's, will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology. [1] Etymological dictionaries are the product of research in historical linguistics. For many words in any language, the etymology will be uncertain, disputed, or simply unknown.
Zhuazhou (抓週 – literally, "pick" and "anniversary", meaning "one-year-old catch" ) is a Chinese ritual held at a child's first birthday party, when the child is 1 year, i.e. typically twelve months since birth (although variable reckonings as to what constitutes a year of age for entitlement for zhuazhou exist), old.
The IEED project is supervised by Alexander Lubotsky. [2] It aims to accomplish the following goals: to compile etymological databases for the individual branches of Indo-European, containing all the words that can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European, and print them in Brill's Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary series,