What is a feminine version of dude? To clarify, the situation I'm asking about is as a 'call-word' (a vocative, a stand alone hey-you (what -is- the word for this)), not as a referential noun The later is -very- gendered, it says exactly what sex a person is, and the feminine version is most likely 'lady' E g 'Was it a dude or a lady who was caught shoplifting at Victoria's Secret?'
What is the origin and meaning of the term Butt Buddies? Today, in the midst of chatting on other SE sites, the term "bum buddies" was used Some other users took this to be offensive, saying that it was just a slightly less egregious version of "butt bu
etymology - oo-ee change for plurals - English Language Usage Stack . . . The plural of foot is feet but the plurals of root, boot, and toot are roots, boots, and toots I have ascertained from my research that whenever an oo word changes its plural form to ee, that word traces to West Germanic The counterexamples come from different languages Questions How did these irregular nouns come to be?
Its all downhill from here—meaning and etymology This is a Journey metaphor theme, where Ego is moving through a 2½-Dimensional landscape There are a number of ways to implement this, and downhill is coherent with all of them One way -- a source of positive evaluation -- is the Work is a Journey theme In this trope, people's effort is expended pushing something up a hill, and replenished
Where does the phrase get crackin come from? Dictionary coverage of 'get cracking' J E Lighter, Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1994) reports that "get cracking" came into U S English from the UK during the 1940s: get cracking to get busy; get going {This phr [ase] came into U S speech through contact with British armed forces during WWII } Lighter's first citation for the phrase is from Eric Partridge