(n.) 1) the carnal realization of one's lascivious, most burning and animal of desires, usually in private environs to hide such dark passions from the disapproving eyes of prudish society
generally agreed by experts to not be all it's cracked up to be.
2) a trait that determines one's role in the reproductive process: male, female, or spectator. different from gender; get over it.
there are other countries than japan, china , korea in asia
Something given in expectation of something better. Today's payment for to-morrow's service.
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(n.) the process by which a species changes and adapts. on a short term basis the process consists of ensuring that the less helpful members of the population do not breed. it does not always work.
A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
(also: period)
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(also: period)
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although I am unable to rationalize your misfortune, perhaps God, with His infinite intelligence, might be able to rationalize it.
(also: spreading democracy)
a trough to feed gold to young children
To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
(also: the universe)
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(also: the universe)
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(n.) a human emissary of divine, spiritual beings of inerrant moral guidance, who communes with them by wearing funny clothes and doing strange chants
the word clown is believed to come from the low german cloyne, which refers to a boorish person of unrefined manners; it is possible, although less likely, that this may derive even further from the latin term colonus, meaning one who is a colonist (implicitly a rural and provincial type).
such biting contempt for the intelligence of the lower classes is surprisingly common in the english language; the word "boor" probably derives from the same source as the dutch "boer" (farmer), the term "villain" similarly may derive from a term for a rural laborer (i.e., one who worked the fields on a villa), and so on. even in modern england, the term "common," as in "commoner," can be seen as a mild insult casting aspersions on one's taste.
that's really it. sorry, i made this page by accident. mixed up the terms etymology and taxonomy. interesting, tho.
such biting contempt for the intelligence of the lower classes is surprisingly common in the english language; the word "boor" probably derives from the same source as the dutch "boer" (farmer), the term "villain" similarly may derive from a term for a rural laborer (i.e., one who worked the fields on a villa), and so on. even in modern england, the term "common," as in "commoner," can be seen as a mild insult casting aspersions on one's taste.
that's really it. sorry, i made this page by accident. mixed up the terms etymology and taxonomy. interesting, tho.
n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.
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A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
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(n.) a strange mythical underwater kingdom where the people eat drugs and sugar-waffles all day, have wooden feet and live in windmills with legal prostitutes
(n.) one who is idiotic; one whose lack of mental acuity is a source of perennial frustration; those who invariably surround the consternated genius in the room
(n.) a merry-go-round; a carnival attraction consisting of a large round gazebo, rotating slowly as it emits menacing calliope music, and filled with petrified and impaled animals on which merrymakers are invited to ride.
The original John Henry, this 1st century folk hero died building inroads as fast as the emperor of Rome.
(n.) professional term for a bruisey kind of boo-boo
sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
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