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Savage is a derogatory term to describe a person or people the speaker regards as primitive and uncivilized. It has predominantly been used to refer to indigenous, tribal, and nomadic peoples. Sometimes a legal, military, and ethnic term, it has shifted in meaning since its first usages in the 16th century. [by whom?]
GGG ("good, giving, and game"), a sex-positive ideal coined by sex-advice columnist Dan Savage; Giant Global Graph, a neologism to differentiate between the existing World Wide Web and that of Web 3.0; Gurgula language (ISO 639-3 code: ggg), a Rajasthani language of Pakistan; GGG, a codon for the amino acid glycine
Savage invited his readers to create a sex-related definition for "santorum" to "memorialize the Santorum scandal [...] by attaching his name to a sex act that would make his big, white teeth fall out of his big, empty head." [30] The winning definition was "the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex."
Roman historian Tacitus introduced the idea of the noble savage in his historical work Germania, describes the ancient Germanic people in terms that precede the notion.. The first century Roman work De origine et situ Germanorum (On the Origin and Situation of the Germans) by Publius Cornelius Tacitus introduced the idea of the noble savage to the Western World in 98 AD, describing the ancient ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Jimmy Savage (1910–1951), or Savage, American journalist; Alan Savage, a pen name of Christopher Nicole (1930–2017), British fiction and non-fiction writer; OMFG (musician) or Alex Savage, British-Canadian music producer Loell Bergen (born 1992) Savage family (or families) of the English and Irish gentry
Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin (Cyrillic: Генна́дий Генна́дьевич Голо́вкин; also spelled Gennady; [2] born 8 April 1982), often known by his nickname "GGG" or "Triple G", is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. He has held multiple middleweight world championships, and is a two-time former unified champion.
A corrective impulse to impose one's rule characterises Kurtz's writings which were discovered by Marlow during his journey, where he rants on behalf of the so-called "International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs" about his supposedly altruistic and sentimental reasons to civilise the "savages"; one document ends with a dark ...