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  2. The Sun Rising (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Stanza one begins with the speaker in bed with his lover, complaining about sun's beaming rays. Donne uses expressions such as, "Busy old fool" (line 1) and "Saucy Pedantic Wretch" [perfectionist] [4] (line 5) to describe his annoyance with it. The speaker of the poem questions the sun's motives and yearns for the sun to go away so that he and ...

  3. Quebec French profanity - Wikipedia

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    Others include s’en câlicer or s’en crisser ("to not give a damn"), sacrer son camp or crisser son camp ("to run away"), and décâlisser. Some are even found as adverbs, such as sacrament, meaning "very" or "extremely", as in C’est sacrament bon ("This is really good"). En tabarnak or en câlisse can mean "extremely angry".

  4. List of Asterix characters - Wikipedia

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    Obelix is Asterix's closest friend and works as a menhir sculptor and delivery man. He is a tall, obese man (he refers to himself as "well-padded" or "man with a slipped chest" and will immediately knock out anyone who calls him "fat") with two notable attributes: his permanently phenomenal strength and his voracious appetite for food, especially wild boar.

  5. Soubrette - Wikipedia

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    This does not mean that these singers are soubrette sopranos but it does mean they can play soubrette roles. [7] The coloratura soprano has a higher range, can sing more dexterous vocal passages and has a somewhat brighter sound than the soubrette. The lyric soprano has a richer voice and higher range than the soubrette soprano. The mezzo ...

  6. Pardon my French - Wikipedia

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    The definition cites an example from The Lady's Magazine, 1830: [2] Bless me, how fat you are grown! – absolutely as round as a ball: – you will soon be as embonpoint [ note 1 ] [ 1 ] (excuse my French) as your poor dear father, the major.

  7. Double entendre - Wikipedia

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    Lodgings to Let, an 1814 engraving featuring a double entendre. He: "My sweet honey, I hope you are to be let with the Lodgins!" She: "No, sir, I am to be let alone".. A double entendre [note 1] (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other often conveys a message that ...

  8. Caitiff - Wikipedia

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    Caitiff (literally a despicable coward or wretch) may mean: a galley-slave in a Barbary bagnio; a Camarilla clanless character in Vampire: The Masquerade; The Caitiff Choir, an album released by the band It Dies Today

  9. Wretch - Wikipedia

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    Wretch may refer to: Wretch, a 1991 album by Kyuss; Wretch (website), a Taiwanese web log community; The Wretch, a 2003 comic book by Phil Hester