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What is the meaning of bunt? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange A bunt in baseball is a gentle tap of the ball that causes the opposing team to scramble from their usual positions (catcher and pitcher in particular) Its goal is to get the hitter to a single base or move other runners to the next base
Is blunt the right expression for directness? A 'blunt' statement is when someone says things to the point and factual But wouldn't 'sharp' (or some other word that implies frankness or sharpness) be a better word than 'blunt'? As blunt has the
Why is c*nt so much more derogatory in the US than the UK? Its worth noting that in the UK context and company is very important with swearing It can be used without targeting reasonably safely in impolite society I wouldn't think twice about calling a friend a cunt but directed towards a stranger or a casual acquaintance it may well result in a punch Older generations are more likely to be offended by its use than younger
What is the origin of giving [it] the old college try? For more background on the use of the phrase, including some connotations I wasn't aware of, I offer the following entry in Paul Dickson's The Dickson Baseball Dictionary: old college try A wild and desperate attempt to make a play Sometimes the term carries a hint of showboating Babe Ruth (Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball, 1928) defined "giving it the old college try" as "playing to the
What is the etymology of the Baseball term “meat hand”? For example, “On the bunt the pitcher used his meat hand instead of gloving the ball to get the out at first ” For a third baseman someone would just say that he “palmed the ball to get the out” So it's obvious what the term means, but is there any way to understand how that originated? First use, what (or who) made it popular - etc
phrases - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Okay: The line is characterizing someone as being so dumb that they could not pour piss out of a boot -- even if the instructions were written on the heel Just a tremendously clever line and if it
Why does a Cheshire cat grin, and how long has it been doing so? Back to England, from Matthew Barker, Jem Bunt (1841): Now it so happened that during this process of beheading [the mastheads of some captured Dutch vessels], one of the jolly tars, a messmate of Bilberry's, espied a curious misshapen monster, that, grinning like a Cheshire cat, adorned the windlass of one of the schuyts
English word for hitting with head The full OED says this sense of bunt is "chiefly dialectal* Their first citation is an 1825 glossary of Wiltshire dialect saying it means to strike with the head, and their most recent is an 1875 dictionary of Sussex dialect defining it as to rock a cradle with the foot
What does Small-ball crap mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange This strategy places a high value on individual runs and attempts to score them without requiring extra base hits, or sometimes without base hits at all, instead using bases on balls, stolen bases, sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly balls, the hit-and-run play, and aggressive baserunning with such plays as the contact play