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Here as well, many people use it without realizing its true meaning. uilskuiken: Uilskuiken (literally: "owlet") is a word for a naively dumb person. zak: Zak (literally: "sack") is a word for the scrotum and is a common insult. It is comparable to the English word "jerk" when used applied to a person.
The preposition "van" is the most widely used preposition in Dutch surnames, but many others are also used, although not always recognised as such if the whole surname is written as a single word. Just as "van" all these prepositions used to indicate geographical locations:
Byl, van der – archaic spelling, Afrikaans, or Americanization of "van der Bijl" Coevorden, van – e.g. George Vancouver#Origins of the family name; Citroen – lemon, e.g. André Citroën; Cornelissen – son of Cornelius; Dekker – from the verb dekken or to cover as in covering roof tops (compare "Thatcher") Dijk, Deijck, van – From ...
Catherine van den Eynde (died 1620/1629) was a Flemish tapestry weaver active in Brussels in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. She was among the leading ...
Its first printed use came as early as 1991 in William G. Hawkeswood's "One of the Children: An Ethnography of Identity and Gay Black Men," wherein one of the subjects used the word "tea" to mean ...
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with ...
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^1 The second spelling is used before a syllable that starts with one consonant followed by a vowel. ^2 The second spelling is used before a syllable that starts with a vowel. ^3 The spellings âh and ah are in free variation, as the Haagse Harry spelling is inconsistent in this case. The same applies to ûh , uh and e .