- Coney and rabbit: what’s the difference? - English Language Usage . . .
So coney is a sort of older, local, or rustic name for any leporid or even lagomorph, one perhaps still favored by Bilbo’s furriers Another place you might come across coney is in the dialect word to coney-fogle, also spelled connyfogle It means to ingratiate oneself, to cheat by bewildering
- What do you call the male equivalent to Cougar (woman)?
What is the male equivalent to the term "cougar"? Clarifying The term "cougar" describes an older woman seeking younger men So a male equivalent would be an older man seek
- How do you describe something that has just enough details?
Something that's is brief enough to get the message across, without being overly "word-ey", or verbose, could be described as "succinct", or "concise" i e, "Explain as best you can, in a [succinct concise] manner" Concise is probably used more in common language, though
- What is the origin of the expression close, but no cigar?
Coney Island offered many such games in the early 1900s Most people did not win a prize; for them, the carnival barker would declare: “Close, but no cigar!” “Close, but no cigar!” is cited in print from at least 1929, but the cigar-prize existed since at least the early 1900s
- In English, is there any Romanic animal with Germanic meat?
The rabbit coney example doesn't work because both words actually have Romance origins - "coney" comes from Old French "conil" (not Old English), and "rabbit" possibly from Middle Dutch We're looking for animals with Romance names whose meat has Germanic names
- Origin of the phrase Now were cooking with
"Coney Island" became a word in the University of Chicago's new dictionary, but terms like "now you're cooking with gas" and "that ain't the way I heard it", used by the people who frequent Coney Island continued to confuse word experts It was used in a 1942 film, The Big Street: Florida Doctor: Did you ever hear of a thing called paranoia?
- meaning - Why are con artists called artists? - English Language . . .
It really confuses me, because in my native language, quot;artists quot; should be a decent occupation (on painting, singing, movie, etc ), but obviously, a man performing scam is far from being d
- Origin of the expression being cagey about something
The Morning Herald of November 1, 1892 has report on "Choynski The Victor: He Knocks Godfrey Out in Fifteen Rounds" at Coney Island on 31st October: Round Eleven— From the cagey manner in which this round was there was every indication that it would prove a long battle
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