Simp is a word used specaly by kids for describing any male in a relation with a female(friends or lovers),or the other meaning that is a man too attentive and submissive to women.
Considered the origin point of the modern human species. While Y-Chromosomal Adam, or the current one, was in the Spain and is roughly 58000 year old. Alongside Mitochondrial Eve, he is considered the oldest ancestor of humanity.
(also: Mitochondrial Eve)
(also: Mitochondrial Eve)
Oily, smooth, sleek.
Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply — the sword, the spear and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion.
The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently "glened" as soon as its occupant is done "smellynge," the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archæologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.
(also: death)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: death)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
To carry on business candidly.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
“One love, one heart, one destiny.”
― Robert Marley
― Robert Marley
someone who enjoys gobbling down fine food
(n.) an academic discipline based around finding out what happened back in the past
and, the even more difficult bit, finding out what really happened in the past
and, the even more difficult bit, finding out what really happened in the past
someone better than you, but you're not resorting to accusing them of cheating, only of making an effort.
A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light. "In time of peace prepare for war" has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means, not merely that all things earthly have an end — that change is the one immutable and eternal law — but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth. It was when Kubla Khan had decreed his "stately pleasure dome" — when, that is to say, there were peace and fat feasting in Xanadu — that he
heard from afar
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
heard from afar
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another — usually about as many times as it can be got there.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
(also: cats)
(also: cats)
A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
(adj.) not in accordance with or otherwise disregarding the dictates of law. describing an action best taken well out of sight of all unbribed authority figures
(n.) supposedly that which separates human beings from lowly animals, since animals are influenced largely by desire for things like food, water, and shelter, whereas humans are influenced by much more sophisticated things political demagoguery and subliminal advertising
sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
join