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Contentious vs Contentment - same root but different meaning The OED gives the following for 'contentious': Etymology: < French contentieux < Latin contentiōsus given to contention, quarrelsome: a Of persons or their dispositions: Given to contention; prone to strife or dispute; quarrelsome 1533 J Frith Bk answeringe Mores Let sig Oivv That you accept this worke with no contencious harte 1611 Bible (King James) Prov xxi 19 It is better to
Isnt birthed wrong? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The verb birth exists and can be found in the OED as a transitive verb meaning "To give birth to; to give rise to" 1945 in Amer Speech (1946) XXI 303 The plan for UNO was birthed at Dumbarton Oaks It is in the Longman Dictionary of the English Language "to bring forth as a mother To cause the development or creation of" On line dictionaries have it as well: Merriam Webster Free Dictionary
Pluralization of Germanisms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 1978 J I M Stewart Full Term xxi 241 A bunch of juvenile Wandervögel You can tell those uses aren’t assimilated because they’re still written in italic in the original And they’re still capitalized, unlike most (but not all) citations of ansatz
euphemisms - What does play the trumpet mean? - English Language . . . If the above three sentences aren't clear enough: in the title the OP asks "What does “play the trumpet” mean?" In fact, quite simply, the question is unfounded: it means nothing, as the section from the post in question is an incoherent "attempt at" using a "cheeky idiom": a meaningless sound-collection, assembled from fragments of phrases the writer has heard It's a case of "it's just
Words for refering to the first and second decade of the new century, a . . . If you are referring to the first decade then you can use 'noughties' noughties : the period of years between 00 and 10 in any century, usually 2000–2010 There is no consensus on the best word to use as they do not flow as easily as 'twenties', 'thirties', etc The period from 1910-1919 has been referred to as the 'nineteen-tens' or 'teens', although there is no universally accepted term for
Is there a feminine equivalent of emasculate? e·mas·cu·late Deprive (a man) of his male role or identity Is there a female equivalent? I came up with efemulate but this sounds strange
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The word pussy is often used to mean "coward" This guy is a pussy and I am wondering why How are woman's genitals related to being a "coward"?
He had his ears bored - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I’m reading The Underground Railroad by Coleson Whitehead Early in the first chapter he writes: “Her last husband had his ears bored for stealing honey The wounds gave up pus until he wasted awa
What does turn of the century mean? - English Language Usage Stack . . . I suspect it was a term coined sometime during the 20th century to mean the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries As someone born mid-twentieth, it seems always to have been around However now we are well into the twenty-first century an element of confusion has arisen Often the meaning can be picked up from context e g "my son was born around the turn of the century" would be unlikely to