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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.
He visited van der Laan beginning in 1980, and continued to correspond with him afterward. [3] He became the translator of the book into English as Architectonic Space: Fifteen Lessons on the Disposition of the Human Habitat (1983), [ 5 ] and wrote the book Dom Hans van der Laan: modern primitive (1989) about van der Laan.
People with this name include: Arjan van der Laan (born 1969), Dutch former footballer and current manager; Cristoffel van der Laan (van der Laemen) (1607–1651), Flemish genre painter, son of Jacob; Eberhard van der Laan (1955-2017), Dutch lawyer and politician; Hans van der Laan (1904–1991), Dutch Benedictine monk and architect; Harry van ...
Brazy "Brazy" is another word for "crazy," replacing the "c" with a "b." It can also be used to describe someone with great skill or who has accomplished something seemingly impossible.
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 ...
Less common are van het and van 't, which use the similar but grammatically neuter article het. The contraction ver-, based on van der, is also common and can be written as a single word with the rest of the surname; an example being Johannes Vermeer (van der meer "of the lake").
This word is borrowed from the Romany word påh, "half," which was used in combinations such as påhera, "halfpenny." re Romani origin: the article 'Romani Language' mentions posh as a Romani word that has been borrowed by English. Perhaps a link or cross reference could be made (I don't know how to do it)142.68.51.163 15:57, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...