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Hausfrau, pejorative: frumpy, petty-bourgeois, traditional, pre-emancipation type housewife whose interests centre on the home, or who is even exclusively interested in domestic matters (colloquial, American English only), sometimes humorously used to replace "wife", but with the same mildly derisive connotation. The German word has a neutral ...
She was a prisoner in one of the reformatories, and there a certain young woman fell in love with her." [ 8 ] The forms bulldyker and bulldyking also appear later on in the Harlem Renaissance novels of the late 1920s, including Eric D. Walrond 's 1926 Tropic Death , Carl van Vechten 's 1926 Nigger Heaven , and Claude McKay 's 1928 Home to Harlem .
Shiksa (Yiddish: שיקסע, romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging [1] term for a gentile [a] woman or girl. The word, which is of Yiddish origin, has moved into English usage and some Hebrew usage (as well as Polish and German ), mostly in North American Jewish culture .
Frum Breslov boys from Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, 2011. Frum (Yiddish: פֿרום, lit. 'religious', 'pious', German: fromm) is a word that describes Jewish religious ...
In English PURRgatory, in Spanish PurGATOrio. A bilingual pun is a pun created by a word or phrase in one language sounding similar to a different word or phrase in another language. The result of a bilingual pun can be a joke that makes sense in more than one language (a joke that can be translated) or a joke which requires understanding of ...
Though seemingly polar opposites, trad wives and provider women have one thing in common: They both challenge people to think more deeply about gender roles and the impact they have on relationships.
Contrary behavior means deliberately doing the opposite of what others routinely or conventionally do. Traditionally, it is usually accompanied by inverse speech, in which one says the opposite of what one actually means. For example, "no!" expresses "yes!" And "hello" means "goodbye".
Bimbo is slang for a conventionally attractive, sexualized naïve woman. [1] The term was originally used in the United States as early as 1919 for an unintelligent or brutish man. [ 2 ] As of the early 21st century, the "stereotypical bimbo" appearance became akin to that of a physically attractive woman.