What ever happened to "fink"? - English Language & Usage Stack …
Sep 8, 2018 · The noun form fink is way at the bottom, followed closely by stinker, and surprisingly, motherfucker. If we focus our attention on the last three terms, and add the verb …
A word that represents a group of people working to achieve a …
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slang - Are the terms "welsh" or "welch" (as in reneging on a bet ...
It was intended as derogatory, you couldn't trust a medieval Welshman. The medieval clergyman Gerald of Wales (c. 1146 – c. 1223, of mixed Norman and Welsh descent) didn't like them very …
Why use "need not" instead of "do not need to"?
The header of psyco.sourceforge.net states: High-level languages need not be slower than low-level ones. Why use need not instead of do not
What happened to the “‑est” and “‑eth” verb suffixes in English?
To expand on this, morphological leveling isn't a random phenomenon. It can be difficult to track the precise reasons for a specific change, but we can conjecture that it might be similar to …
epithet requests - Is there a word for a person who gives out too …
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"Is" or "was" written by? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Feb 4, 2014 · @peterG such use of the historical present goes back to classical Latin rhetoric (translatio temporum being the rhetorical technique of sparing use to foreground certain …
What's a word for someone you don't like? [closed]
Nov 26, 2015 · Fink: A person who you do not like. Longman Dictionary. But I prefer creep: "Leave me alone you creep." Merriam Webster "He was a real creep, he was always staring at …
terminology - Is “kludge” a proper word to name a dirty hack in ...
Eric Raymond, The New Hacker's Dictionary, third edition (1996) goes on at great length (two full pages) about the differences between kluge and kludge, the fact that kluge is the older and …
What you call someone who leaks information from a team?
Jun 5, 2015 · Depends on your point of view: A source, a leak, a snitch, a rat, a whistle-blower, a mole, a canary, a fink, an informant, a stool pigeon, and several more. – Hot Licks …