2023年12月9日 · funky "old, musty," in reference to cheeses, then "repulsive," from funk ["bad smell," 1620s, from dialectal Fr. funkière "smoke"]. It began to develop an approving sense in …

2011年2月8日 · Nobody really knows. There's no agreed derivation of the expression 'hunky-dory'. It is American and the earliest example of it in print that I have found is from a collection …

2012年10月7日 · You are right. I probably choose your answer as the right one. But I guess I am going to leave this open for a while in case someone offers a creative and funny one. I once …

This question ought to be reopened, because the current answers are basically wrong. Whether or not other usage in youth culture pre-dates it, sick became slang for pretty much the …

Etymology. The word nan for grandma is a shortening of the word nana.Both of these words probably are child pronunciations of the word nanny.

Here is the entry for all get-out in Harold Wentworth, American Dialect Dictionary (1944):. all get-out. 1. To an extreme degree; —used with like or as.

2014年8月31日 · The earliest bad-ass. According the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1994), the word bad-ass is attested first as an adjective (1955), then as a …

2016年11月24日 · Although the answer says that the OP's German friend is wrong, it implies that she is, in a way, right: saying 'Did you ever fly a kite?' is wrong unless the context limits the …

2016年1月4日 · The funky gibbon. The two long 'o's in 'who' and 'you' are separated by a single short word also beginning with 'o'. Moreover, there are no hard consonants or sibilants to …

In the song Here comes the Hotstepper, sang by Ini Kamoze, is repeated the word "Hotstepper".I have been looking for the meaning of this specific word, but I don't seem to find the exact one …