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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 ...
"Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense words—words without a clear meaning or any meaning at all. [citation needed] Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear both made good use of this type of nonsense in some of their verse. [citation needed] These poems are well formed in terms of grammar and syntax, and each nonsense word is of a clear part of ...
Frank Bough (1933–2020), British television presenter; Sam Bough (1822–1878), Scottish landscape painter; Søren Bough (1873–1939), Norwegian sport shooter and Olympics competitor; Stephen R. Bough (born 1970), American judge
Tree and plants branches of several sizes The branches of this dead camel thorn tree within Sossusvlei are clearly visible The branches and leaves of a tree Looking up into the branch structure of a Pinus sylvestris tree Leafless tree branches during winter. A branch, also called a ramus in botany, is a stem that grows off from another stem, or ...
In Gaelic Scotland children were given the astringent sap of the tree as a medicine and as a protection against witch-craft. Some famous ash trees were the Tree of Uisnech, the Bough of Dathí, and the Tree of Tortu. The French poet who used Breton sources, Marie de France (late 12th century), wrote a lai about an ash tree.
The rhyme is followed by a note: "This may serve as a warning to the proud and ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last." [4]James Orchard Halliwell, in his The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842), notes that the third line read "When the wind ceases the cradle will fall" in the earlier Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784) and himself records "When the bough bends" in the second ...
Golden Bough performs this on their album Kids at Heart: Celtic Songs for Children. Authority Zero performs this on their album Andiamo (hidden track). Red Grammer performs this on his Down The Do Re Mi recording. A Scottish version of the song is heard in the 1973 film The Wicker Man; Schooner Fare performs this on their 1983 album Alive
Charles Godfrey Leland mentions the idea that the word could be derived from the Norse word hum, meaning 'night' or 'shadow', and the word bugges (used in the Bible), a variant of bogey, meaning 'apparitions'. [6] The Norse word hum mentioned, or hume, actually means 'dark air' in Old Norwegian.