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- etymology - Origin of Screw the pooch - English Language Usage . . .
Wiktionary says this of "screw the pooch": The term was first documented in the early "Mercury" days of the US space program It came there from a Yale graduate named John Rawlings who helped
- What are some good sites for researching etymology? [closed]
Here is an example of a directed graph: It works in multiple languages, providing etymology data, descendants, related words and more It also has a pretty quick search, and the index is constantly growing in the number of words and slowly growing in accuracy too
- etymology - Why shrink (of a psychiatrist)? - English Language . . .
I know it originates from "head shrinking", but it doesn't help me a lot to understand the etymology Why are psychiatrists called that? Is it like "my head is swollen [from anguish, misery, stress
- etymology - “-gram” vs. “-graph” - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What’s the difference between the suffixes -gram and -graph? Is there any difference? Even if they are completely synonymous, what’s the difference in etymology? For example, pictograph vs pictog
- etymology - What is the origin of hot as good-looking or . . .
From etymonline for hot, “The association of hot with sexuality dates back to c 1500 ” Also, “Sense of "exciting, remarkable, very good" is 1895 Hot stuff for anything good or excellent is by 1889 ” The etymonline entry isn't clear about the dates of “warm” or “heated” meanings, but those apparently predate the other OED 1 cites for the word in various senses of heated
- etymology - Origin of poindexter pointdexter - English Language . . .
Was this term (I believe it is a synonym of geek, nerd, and so on) based on the television series Dexter or was it around before that and the series based its name on it?
- etymology - Origin of blimey - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
According to Etymonline: (It is also used in excitement ) blimey by 1889, probably a corruption of (God) blind me! First attested in a slang dictionary which defines it as quot;an apparently
- etymology - What is the origin of dox and doxing? - English . . .
Wikipedia has a solid description of what "doxing" is: Doxing is the Internet-based practice of researching and publishing personally identifiable information about an individual They also make a
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