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Etymology of bullshit by etymonline


Using the wrong dictionary | Hacker News

... Etymology Dictionary at http://etymonline.com/ · mithras on May 21 ... bullshit it (assuming the rule is in effect, it wouldn't be a ...

Adventures in Etymology: Immolate - Book Polygamist

Retrieved April 3, 2013 from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=immolate&allowed_in_frame=0 ... The best bullshit of the web. the ...

I'm kind of glad to hear that everyone does this.... - All Things Linguistic

Because it means it isn't colonizer bullshit, it's what everyone does. ... Etymonline entry for 'of' · Etymonline entry for 'off' · Etymonline ...

Naughty Words…... bullshit (n.) | by Brooklyn Muse (editor) - Medium

eloquent and insincere rhetoric,” 1915, American English slang; see bull (n.1) + shit (n.), probably because it smells.

English Slang in “Gap Year” Movies Series - IAIN Langsa Journals

“Etymology Dictionaries Online,” 2019. www.etymonline.com. Mattiello, E. (2008). An introduction to english slang: A description of its ...

Bullshit (Also Bullcrap) Is A Common | PDF | Lexicology - Scribd

The word "bull" itself may have derived from the Old French boul meaning "fraud, deceit" (Oxford English Dictionary).[2] The term "horseshit" is a near synonym.

What is the source of the phrase "phony baloney"?

Etymonline provides the following derivation. 1894, variant of ... A substitute to the word "lie/s" and to a extent "bullshit". When ...

English and romance languages extremely similar? | Antimoon Forum

Etymonline : http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search ... Bullshit. L'Acadèmie Française as its name suggests, cares of French only ...

Etymology of bullock by etymonline

"male of a bovine animal," c. ... The other possibility [Watkins] is that the Germanic word is from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell." An ...

Advent with A Kempis IV - DANIEL DeFOREST LONDON

Wisdom and peace, Kempis claims, will soon follow. [1] Online Etymology Dictionary, “believe,” Douglas Harper, http://www.etymonline.com/index.

"Poppycock" "Nonsense".... - Everyday English ... - Facebook

... Poppycock" "Nonsense". ("Dictionary.Cambridge.org"). "Trivial talk" (Etymology; "etymonline ... Bullshit. Origin; ca. 19th Century ca,1865.. From Dutch ...

Wiktionary:Etymology scriptorium/2023/September

Actually derivation from bullshit can't quite work if bullshit itself is ... Etymonline but not by the OED. lattermint (talk) 21:06, 10 September 2023 ...

Bullshit - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia | PDF | Linguistics ...

"OnlineEtymologyDictionary"(http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bullshit).Etymonline.com.Retrieved 20111112. 3. Eliot,T.S.InventionsoftheMarchHare ...

Dichotomy and anomolies beyond etymology of English - Page 6

Gibbs entropy is a subset of Shannon entropy. Atla wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 7:48 am And your bullshit court trial thread got deleted ...

What is the etymology of the phrase "to shoot the shit?" - Ask MetaFilter

"Bull" is a nice transitional stage between "breeze" and "shit", I think. Etymonline gives a first use of 1941 for "shoot the breeze ...

Etymology of bully by etymonline

The meaning deteriorated 17c. through "fine fellow" and "blusterer" to "harasser of the weak" (1680s, from bully-ruffian, 1650s). Perhaps ...

Who lusts for certainty lusts for lies - Hacker News

Etymonline compiles the information on etymology and historical usage from printed books (eg the Oxford English Dictionary). That is what is ...

This is a serious question. When people say "bullshit" why do they ...

Because the origin of the word s*** goes all the way back to the Old testament of the Bible. There was a certain group of people called the shittites whose ...

Bullshit etymology in English - Cooljugator

English word bullshit comes from English shit, English bull.

Episode 12: Dead Language Power | Patreon

3:36 A slight correction about the etymology of “magic” ... Eli apologizes to optimality theorists for calling their thing bullshit ... Collectivity is technically ...