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- offensive language - Is schmuck really an obscene word? - English . . .
Schmuck is supposedly an obscene Yiddish term for the male sex organ, yet it appears all of the time in the media as an American idiom for a jerk Can one use it in polite company?
- Josephine, Schmosephine - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
It is likely derived from Hebrew for "fat person " Another example is the Yiddish word schmuck, which in English we might translate dick or tool, as in He's such a dick! Or, He's such a tool! Schmuck-head, a common derivative, is just a bit more graphic, if you know what I mean (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
- Where should the comma be placed in the salutation of a letter?
Sometimes I see a comma after the proper name: Hello Mr Black, In order to give you But my native language is not English and I think that the comma in this phrase should be placed befo
- Schlong and its etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Compare schmuck As a verb, "to have sex with," by 2005 Related: Schlonged; schlonging It does have a verbal usage, but strangely it says it started to be used in 1969 The linked Ngram Viewer seems to support it What is its etymology? How did it get its traction? Is the word shlong or sclung related with it? How vulgar is this word?
- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Let's say we have a guy who is stupid and weak and everybody picks on him and mocks him all the time What would we call this guy? I found timid in the dictionary but I am looking for a colloquial
- differences - “I fail to do something” vs “I cant do something . . .
I can't understand why jessica is still dating that schmuck after all the times he's cheated on her I can't understand why anyone would put banana slices on a pizza?! I don't often hear someone use I can't in complex sentences where it means the same thing as: "I am unable to achieve that" More often in this case, I hear the specific reason, like,
- Is it true that English has no future tense?
You might wonder why 'will' isn't considered to definitively say that "English has a future tense" (in the pedantic sense that is In the less fully formal sense it totally says that English has a future tense) 'Will' is syntactically in the category of ' modal verbs ', can may must should etc Its meaning is certainly future time, but syntactically it is a helper (auxiliary) verb But
- What do you call someone who is being lied to? [closed]
As with patsy, schmuck, mark, words used by con-artists to refer to their victims usually with negative connotations, possibly not what the OP is asking?
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