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Polari (from Italian parlare 'to talk') is a form of slang or cant historically used primarily in the United Kingdom by some actors, circus and fairground performers, professional wrestlers, merchant navy sailors, criminals and prostitutes, and particularly among the gay subculture.
Polari, a jargon that began in European ports and evolved into a shorthand used in gay subcultures, influences much of today's slang in words like "zhuzh," "drag," "camp" and "femme."
While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.
The Grand Entry at the Rocky Mountain Regional Rodeo 23 in 2005, organized by the Colorado Gay Rodeo Association. A gay cowboy is a man who has been involved with cowboy culture and wants to be part of it, and could be someone from a rural area who lives there, as well as a migrant to urban areas due to the rural exodus, but who wants to maintain some habits and customs of country life.
Getty Images From "Christmas" to "Duke City," the residents of Albuquerque have a local language all of their own. Read on for a list of the top 10 Albuquerque slang terms and slang
Simp is slang for a person (typically a man) who is desperate for the attention and affection of someone else (typically a woman).
The sources do not agree on the origins of "hokum": the word is thought to exist since either the late 19th, or early 20th century. It can be derived either by analogy withgap-sealing material oakum (the reliable gags of hokum were supposed to fill the deficiencies of the stage act), or a blend of "hocus-pocus" and "bunkum" (nonsense).
Anyone who's looking for a new guy is hoping to snag the mythical "golden retriever boyfriend". This new kind of man is neither the so-called "nice guy" who feels entitled to female attention ...