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An Urdu language word meaning egg, for the pure-white uniform of traffic police in urban Pakistani areas like Karachi. Askar/Askari A Somali term meaning “soldier” which is often used by Somali immigrants to the United Kingdom to refer to police. It is commonly used by rappers in UK drill. Aynasız
Urban Dictionary Screenshot Screenshot of Urban Dictionary front page (2018) Type of site Dictionary Available in English Owner Aaron Peckham Created by Aaron Peckham URL urbandictionary.com Launched December 9, 1999 ; 25 years ago (1999-12-09) Current status Active Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in ...
Red areas are the commonly agreed upon areas in East Anglia of Norfolk and Suffolk. The pink areas are the areas that are not always agreed upon by scholars containing Essex and Cambridgeshire. East Anglian English is a dialect of English spoken in East Anglia , primarily in or before the mid-20th century.
Strut (typesetting), a vertical rule with no width; Strut bar, an automotive suspension accessory; Strut channel, a standardized formed structural system; MacPherson strut, a component of some vehicle suspensions; Apache Struts, a web application framework for Java
box in the street for receiving outgoing mail, in Britain traditionally in the form of a free-standing red pillar; also called postbox or, less commonly, letter box (US: mailbox) See also Pillarbox : the effect created when an image is not wide enough for the full width of the display screen (i.e. the vertical equivalent of the horizontal ...
Title page of Rev. Abraham Fleming's account of the appearance of the ghostly black dog "Black Shuck" at the church of Bungay, Suffolk: "A straunge, and terrible Wunder wrought very late in the parish church of Bungay: a town of no great distance from the citie of Norwich, namely the fourth of this August, in the yeere of our Lord 1577. in a great tempest of violent raine, lightning, and ...
A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words is a dictionary of slang originally compiled by publisher and lexicographer John Camden Hotten in 1859.. The first edition was published in 1859, with the full title and subtitle: A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words: used at the present day in the streets of London, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the houses of ...
fail – a verb meaning to fall ill; fly-golding – a ladybird; foundrous – boggy or marshy; gratten – stubble left in a field after harvest; hem – a lot or much; hot – a verb meaning to heat something up, "hot it over the fire" innardly – to talk innardly is to mumble; leastways – otherwise; lief – rather, "I'd lief not" lippy ...