etymology - What is the lost origin of hoodlum? - English Language . . . The Hoodlum Band was arrested on December 13, 1866 Refer to The Frederick Bee History Project "Hoodlum" page From that page: Hudelum means disorderly in a German dialect, Swabian This is corroborated by the etymology for 'hoodlum' given at WordReference com: Etymology: dialect, dialectal German; compare Swabian derivatives of Hudel rag, e g hudelum disorderly, hudellam weak, slack
vocabulary - English Language Usage Stack Exchange a hoodlum who collects money owed to a racketeer ' a 'juice man' (loan collector) for syndicate hoodlum bosses (1950s+ underworld) ' Source: Dictionary com juice collector (slang): one who collects the money (juice) owed to a bookmaker or a loan shark Source: Wiki Books containing references to the above terms: The Black Book and the Mob
Etymology of punk? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The word existed with a different meaning back in the times of Shakespeare From Wikipedia From the late 16th through the 18th century, punk was a common, coarse synonym for prostitute; William Shakespeare used it with that meaning in The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602) and Measure for Measure (1623) The term eventually came to describe "a young male hustler, a gangster, a hoodlum, or a ruffian
Are there racial overtones for the term thug? Some of us have seen the Richard Sherman pre-SuperBowl interviews where he accuses the media of racism by using the term "thug" to describe him his actions He suggests that it is being used to
Inputted or input - English Language Usage Stack Exchange "Inputted" may be acceptable per Oxford, but it sets my teeth on edge; my ear wants "input" to follow the same rules as "put" I suspect I'm not the only one, which is probably why you're being forced to change it EDIT: This question answer has been getting a bit of attention recently, so I'd like to clarify my comment below There is a verb, putt, meaning "try to hit a golf ball into a hole
What is the difference between thee and thou? Thee, thou, and thine (or thy) are Early Modern English second person singular pronouns Thou is the subject form (nominative), thee is the object form, and thy thine is the possessive form Before they all merged into the catch-all form you, English second person pronouns distinguished between nominative and objective, as well as between singular and plural (or formal): thou - singular
Free of vs. Free from - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I checked Garner's Modern American Usage; although BG doesn't address free of vs free from, he writes that the distinction between freedom of and freedom from is that the former indicates the "possession of a right" (freedom of speech) and the latter "protection from a wrong" (freedom from oppression) So free from is used to indicate protection from something problematic, and free of (which
What is the adjectival form for the word integrity? I'm looking for the adjectival form of " integrity " Instead of "Be a person of integrity," I'd like to say something like "Be [one word I'm looking for]" I did a Google search for this, but I also wanted to know what stackexchange folks would like to say