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"Yahoo"! which today functions both as the name of a home for one's email (and the site of a bazillion advertisements), as well as an interjection one might hear at a western rodeo (or in a retro Mountain Dew commercial--"Yahoo! Mountain Dew!") which conveys excitement with un-self-conscious abandon, usually at the top of one's voice (i.e., loud!).
The Yahoo dictionary lists both variants, with the "ah" version first. Dictionary.com also lists both, but the audio clip is of the "ay" version. So what is most common/correct, and what should be used?
EtymOnline is an excellent resource for online etymology searches. If, however, I am looking for lists of words sharing a given Latin, Greek or other root (which I call "reverse etymology"), I do not
The word thot is all over Twitter. The @lovihatibot Twitterbot routinely finds it in searches for "I love the word [X]" and "I hate the word [X]", in fact it's the most hated word and third most l...
Although, e.g., the Merriam-Webster dictionary does not list the word "reoccurring", dictionary.com does list it as a variant of "occur", and the Oxford dictionary even has a separate entry for it. The Grammarist defines a distinction between "recurring" and "reoccurring" in terms of meaning:
Speaking as a complete outsider, with no prior knowledge of ratchet as post–Jimmy Cliff slang, I have to say that the term as used by the Hudsons reminds me quite a bit of skanky, which derived from skank (“An unattractive woman; a malodorous woman; =SKAG,” according to Robert Chapman and Barbara Kipfer, Dictionary of American Slang ...
Your dictionary appears to be working, so you can use it to attempt to fathom the various shades of meaning of those twenty nouns and six adjectives, and perhaps even puzzle out how those shades of meaning resemble, and differ from, the meaning of 'philistine'. Of similar terms for the dictionary sense of 'philistine', 'yahoo' may be best:
Jonathon Green, Chambers Slang Dictionary (2008) offers this brief entry: bump uglies v. (also bump nasties) {S[tandard] E[nglish] bump + ugly (bodies)} {1990s+} (US black/teen) to have sexual intercourse. And Tom Dalzell & Terry Victor, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006) notes a slightly earlier occurene:
From the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary: In the proverb A rolling stone gathers no moss, or variants of this; A rambler, wanderer; From Dictionary.com: a restless or wandering person . From Urban Dictionary: A person who likes to move often or is unwilling to settle down in one place or with one person or both.
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