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Dry Guillotine is the English translation of the French phrase la guillotine sèche, which was prisoner slang for the Devil's Island penal colony at French Guiana.It is also the title of several articles by various authors and most notably, a very influential and successful book by former prisoner #46,635, René Belbenoît.
Bellsybabble is the name of the language of the Devil, mentioned by writer James Joyce in the following postscript to a letter (containing the story now known as "The Cat and the Devil"), which he wrote in 1936 [1] to his four-year-old grandson: [2]: 15–16
[3] [4] The term dickens itself, most likely from the surname, became a minced oath when referring to the devil. [5] Flipping, used as a euphemism for fucking, is a slang term first recorded 1911 by DH Lawrence in The White Peacock. A popular combination with heck to make Flipping Heck, serves as a minced oath of the phrase Fucking Hell.
The Devil is Dead (1971); Nebula Award nominee, 1972 [Second chronologically in The Devil is Dead trilogy] Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine (1971) Not to Mention Camels (1976) Archipelago (1979); [First chronologically in The Devil is Dead trilogy] Aurelia (1982); Philip K. Dick Award nominee, 1982; Annals of Klepsis ...
The Barn at the End of Our Term (2007) by Karen Russell; Homestuck (2009) by Andrew Hussie; I, Ripper (2015) by Stephen Hunter; Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #6 (2016) by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa; Scratchman (2019) by Tom Baker; Windswept House (1996, pg 402) by Fr. Malachi Martin "Disappearance At Devil's Rock" (2016) by Paul Tremblay
The term Black Twitter comprises a large network of Black users on the platform and their loosely coordinated interactions, many of which accumulate into trending topics due to its size ...
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 Hebrew term śāṭān (Hebrew: שָׂטָן) is a generic noun meaning "accuser" or "adversary", [8] [9] and is derived from a verb meaning primarily "to obstruct, oppose". [10] In the earlier biblical books, e.g. 1 Samuel 29:4, it refers to human adversaries, but in the later books, especially Job 1–2 and Zechariah 3, to a supernatural ...