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As the word gained popularity and reached the coasts of the U.S. and traveled between borders, variations of the slang began to pop up such as the female versions of dudette and dudines; however, they were short lived due to dude also gaining a neutral gender connotation and some linguists see the female versions as more artificial slang. The ...
I have a heated debate with many people about the use of the word 'dude'. It has been widely believed, used and postulated by Australians that the word dude somehow means camels dick or foreskin. I wonder where this idea orginated, given dude has many other colloquial meanings in the USA and in England.
Dave the Dude, hero of the film Lady for a Day (1933) and its remake, Pocketful of Miracles (1961). The Dude, in the Western film Rio Bravo, played by Dean Martin; Dr. Dude, from the pinball machine Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray (1990) Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, protagonist of the film The Big Lebowski (1998) Dude, a character in the 2021 ...
Image credits: SpurlieBird #2. Ive heard many stories about Robin Williams being really kind and supportive to other people in the entertainment industry. Plus he named his daughter Zelda.
The whole story was pretty big for a while at school. The professor went to jail illegally for like a month without any accusation against him because he answered a phone call from one of his ...
In polite company this phrase may be toned down to "The mutt's nuts", or the phrase "The bee's knees" may be used as a polite substitute. dog's breakfast/dinner something poorly executed; a mess [64] [65] [66] [13] [67] dole * (informal) welfare, specifically unemployment benefit. Sometimes used in the US, esp. older generation donkey's years
Image credits: gwart_ #3. I had a case where a guy was charged for running a red light. The thing is, he had been sitting at the lights for five minutes, and it hadn’t changed.
In linguistics, an honorific (abbreviated HON) is a grammatical or morphosyntactic form that encodes the relative social status of the participants of the conversation. . Distinct from honorific titles, linguistic honorifics convey formality FORM, social distance, politeness POL, humility HBL, deference, or respect through the choice of an alternate form such as an affix, clitic, grammatical ...