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- etymology - Where did Im Jonesing get its meaning from? - English . . .
The term 'Jonesing' enters the language as junkies and dealers come and go from the alley next door Shelley doesn't say whether the Daily News provided any documentation for its tendentious equation of Mingus + Great Jones Street = "jonesing"; but it almost certainly did not
- etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The use of '51' in this sense is either an easy-to-speak-while-jonesing street slang obfuscation-via-truncation of '151' in the sense of 'cocaine', a term itself shortened from the ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases) diagnostic code F14 151 (late 1980s and early 1990s), which refers to "cocaine abuse with cocaine-induced psychotic
- What is the origin of the phrase hunky dory?
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 of US songs, George Christy's Essence of Old Kentucky, 1862 We do know that 'hunky-dory' wasn't conjured from nowhere but was preceded by earlier words, i e 'hunkey', meaning 'fit and healthy' and 'hunkum-bunkum
- What is the origin of thats using your noggin?
The phrase simply means "using your brain" It's usually applied with a straight-forward meaning, implying that thoughtfulness was indeed employed, but may sometimes be used in an ironic or jocular sense when the subject of the phrase does something stupid
- Meaning and usage of to no end
As I learned the phrase, it's simply he annoys me no end, meaning (literally) without limit and (actually) a great deal He annoys me to no end would mean 'without any purpose', but since most people aren't annoying deliberately, I can't see how the phrase would be useful
- Whats the most succinct way to say that someone feels the desire to do . . .
Various words (most of which have already been suggested on this page), such as desire, lust, longing, yearning, craving, wish, wanting, urge, impulse, inclination, and, in the right kind of informal contexts, jonesing, can all be used for such a state, but none of them implies that something within the person caused it to be unfulfilled; that
- How did the archaic villein transform into villain?
The word villain, as described by Google, comes form the archaic word villein Here is the definition of villein: villein ˈvɪlən,-eɪn noun (in medieval England) a feudal tenant entirely sub
- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
You couldn't quite say it was a "missed opportunity" or a "missed chance" That's because---as you have stated initially--- "Everyone except Tom was given the ice cream " Tom, in other words, couldn't do much about it There have already been potential answers to this one I, for my part, am adding this favourite verb of mine for such situations-- "jones" Tom was jonesing for the ice cream
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