2021年6月2日 · From Google Ngrams, I suspect the pronunciation /dɔɡ/ was non-standard roughly between the years 1840 and 1940, because this is where the spelling dawg is most common. There's also a more recent peak, since around 2000, which must indicate the AAVE pronunciation of dawg, which is something like [dɒʊɡ]. There's actually even another ...

Dawg means friend, it can be used in the same way as man as in-- Hey man! -- 'Sup dawg? it carries an impliation of "cool" as mentioned in the Merriam-Webster link you gave under the meaning you mention. Also see here (the relevant meaning(s) are in bold): Noun. dawg (plural dawgs) Eye dialect spelling of dog; also hound dawg. That dawg won't hunt.

2014年1月17日 · What's up dog is slang - also spelled wazzup dawg or just wazzup. Completely normal question to a peer, to ask how is life. The "dog" is not demeaning in this case. The original statement was "What's up doc" from Bugs Bunny, so a decade or more ago the joke would be something like "Hey I saw updoc outside!" "What's updoc?" "Nothing much, and you?"

2012年10月7日 · From Etymonline:. doggone 1851, Amer.Eng., a "fantastic perversion of god-damned" [Weekley]. But Mencken favors the theory that it is "a blend form of dog on it; in fact it is still often used with it following.

2015年7月15日 · Substituting the balls for the head doesn’t seem like the best option—scratching your head has quite a different meaning (puzzlement, bewilderment). You might say scratching our back sides, which I’d say is perhaps more euphemised than …

A friend. Also dawg. A method of addressing a person, similar to man and dude. Also spelled dawg. Timeline: Recent (20 years or less). Most common in U.S. urban culture. Possibly derived from the sense that a family dog is a loyal and beloved pet. (Source: watching modern popular television and viewing internet memes) This is the meaning in ...

2011年4月12日 · The meaning is more of a retro way to express excitement or gleeful expectation. "Oh my goodness!" is similar but tends to be more of an expression of surprise than excitement. The phrase and its ilk are not often used unless expressing excitement towards something from the era when the phrase was more common. In this case, the '60s.

A better example would: "il ne mange plus rien" where"plus" and "rien" are two negative and it's emphasis the meaning of "il ne mange plus" and "il ne mange rien" – Baptiste Pernet Commented Oct 31, 2022 at 11:46

2015年11月17日 · Looks like domestic short-haired cat and domestic long-haired cat are standard in American English.. Wikipedia:. A domestic short-haired cat is a cat of mixed ancestry – thus not belonging to any particular recognized cat breed – possessing a coat of short fur.

Among many of my friends (mostly 20-somethings, geeky, scattered throughout UK/US/Canada, including a couple of Californians), dude as a form of address is completely gender-neutral.