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The feather on the wing, and the wing on the bird, and the bird on the nest, and the nest on the twig, and the twig on the branch, and the branch on the tree, and the tree in the bog, And the bog down in the valley-o.
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 ...
العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) भोजपुरी; Boarisch; Cebuano
[6] [9] In these memes, to "fall out of a coconut tree" typically means that one lacks awareness of one's surroundings, akin to the phrase "living under a rock". [10] The New York Times reported that enthusiasm for Harris and the coconut tree meme was driving a Washington-area surge in demand for piña coladas. [10]
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
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
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 ...
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.