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  2. How Polari, the ‘lost language’ of gay men, inspired much of ...

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    Regardless, “zhuzh” — the pronunciation sounds a bit like "jouj" — is in fact a real word, meaning “to fix, to tidy; ... zhuzh, zhoosh, jhoosh, jeuje and even josh. This is because while ...

  3. Polari - Wikipedia

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    " Zhoosh" (/ ʒ ʊ ʃ, ʒ uː ʃ /; [21] alternatively spelled "zhuzh," "jeuje," and a number of other variety spellings [22]), meaning to smarten up, style or improve something, became commonplace in the mid-2000s, having been used in the 2003 United States TV series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and What Not to Wear.

  4. Jüz - Wikipedia

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    Ethnographic map of the Senior jüz in Kazakhstan in the early 20th century, following M. S. Mukanov (1991). [3]Historically, the Senior jüz (Kazakh: Ұлы жүз, ۇلى ءجۇز, romanized: Ūly jüz) inhabited the northern lands of the former Chagatai Ulus of the Mongol Empire, in the Ili River and Chu River basins, in today's South-Eastern Kazakhstan and China's Ili Kazakh Autonomous ...

  5. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it; The fourth (if present) links to the related article(s) or adds a clarification note.

  6. Ilana Glazer’s 3-year-old daughter knows what she likes and what she doesn’t — including when it comes to her mom’s style!. Glazer sat down with Makho Ndlovu for the Jan. 16 episode of ...

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  8. List of English words of Yiddish origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).

  9. Chinese Internet slang - Wikipedia

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    Starting from late 2013, the meaning has changed and is now widely used to describe the nouveau riche in China (people who are wealthy but less cultured). [ 4 ] Weird ( 重口味 , zhòng kǒuwèi ) – Literally a "heavy taste, interest or hobby" such as in horror films , pornography, heavy metal music , extreme sports or the similar