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  2. Dyke (slang) - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Shiksa - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Carsten Bohn - Wikipedia

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    Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.

  6. On the other hand, the women in the tales who do speak up are framed as wicked. Cinderella's stepsisters' language is decidedly more declarative than hers, and the woman at the center of the tale "The Lazy Spinner" is a slothful character who, to the Grimms' apparent chagrin, is "always ready with her tongue."

  7. Alternative spellings of woman - Wikipedia

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    The terms womyn and womxn have been criticized for being unnecessary or confusing neologisms, due to the uncommonness of mxn to describe men. [8] [9] [10]The word womyn has been criticized by transgender people [11] [12] due to its usage in trans-exclusionary radical feminist circles which exclude trans women from identifying into the category of "woman", particularly the term womyn-born womyn.

  8. Are 'provider women' the opposite of 'trad wives'? They're ...

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    You've heard of "trad wives." Now, meet the "provider women." A new term has emerged online − and unlike "trad wives," which describes women who embrace cooking, cleaning and often subservience ...

  9. Bilingual pun - Wikipedia

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    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 ...