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- What does ratchet mean and when was it first used?
From them I learned the following things about ratchet What does 'ratchet' mean, and how is it pronounced? Ratchet [is] used to describe someone means nasty, ghetto or trifling —Janet Ratchet also means a situation or process that is perceived to be deteriorating or changing steadily in a series of irreversible steps
- meaning - What is a word that could define someone who likes to cause . . .
Scheming does not carry the meaning of causing harm to others You can scheme for personal gain without necessarily hurting anyone or, at least, without that being your objective Instigate doesn't have the required meaning at all, the OP is asking for a word that describes someone who purposefully causes pain in others Also, please include the sources for your definitions
- More formal way of saying: Sorry to bug you again about this, but . . .
A good question: I'm in a similar quandry with a supplier, but after 'sorry to bother you' email or two, I started to ratchet-up the bluntness :)
- Where did the phrase batsh*t crazy come from?
The word crazy is a later addition Scanning Google Books I find a handful of references starting from the mid-60s where batshit is clearly just a variation on bullshit (nonsense, rubbish) - which meaning still turns up even in 2001, but it's relatively uncommon now Here's a relatively early one from 1967 where the meaning is crazy A decade later most references have this meaning, but the
- Forward vs Forwards - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The OED says this The present distinction in usage between forward and forwards is that the latter expresses a definite direction viewed in contrast with other directions In some contexts either form may be used without perceptible difference of meaning; the following are examples in which only one of them can now be used: ‘The ratchet-wheel can move only forwards’; ‘the right side of
- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Terry Pratchett used in his disc world novels the word "avec" as a common food ingredient for french (in his books named "quirmian" or "Quirm" for the country) food Excerpt from "Snuff" by Terry
- Ive just bought vs. I just bought vs. I bought [duplicate]
I bought an English grammar book 3 weeks ago Is it correct to use any of the following sentences interchangeably to tell my friend that I bought the book, or is there a difference in meaning between
- metaphors - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
ADDED: It is possible that a third sense of racket contributed Racket is found in some 18th-and 19th-century texts as a variant of ratchet, a toothed wheel or bar, or a tooth or click for stopping the action of such a wheel or bar, and the general notion of device might have fed into the meaning This sense survives in modern rackets
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