2014年9月2日 · "Lil" is a kind of prefix and is the short form of "little". It is often spelled with an apostrophe as "Lil'" or "Li'l". When used as a prefix in comic or animation it can refer to a specific style of drawing where the characters appear in a chubby, childlike style.

Sometimes very small indeed. I've never, either in real life or on TV/film, heard it pronounced such that it exactly rhymes with "Lil". The difference is often subtle, and I'm willing to entertain the idea of it being psychosomatic. –

Lil在英文里对应的是Little，但我觉得Lil xx不能说就是小xx的意思，因为这样其实想起来还蛮蠢的，以中国人的思维吧，你起个说唱的艺名叫小李小陈，你觉得和你歌里的金链子，兰博基尼和大妞们配吗？

2016年3月24日 · 'Moke' in U.S. slang. As a U.S. slang term, moke has a very problematic history. Though its earliest slang meaning (going back at least to 1839), was "donkey or mule," it was also used for decades as a disparaging term for "a black or dark-skinned person" (starting not later than 1847) and "a foolish or inconsequential fellow" (starting not later than 1855).

One more colorful slang term I gleaned from the British movie I recently watched is slag. In the movie, it was used in curses like, "Fuck-ing dogs! Slags." "Right slag, that one." Now I know via

2014年4月29日 · @Doorknob - Elliot has named it correctly. The upper lip is skin-covered, skin-colored, and hairy. The pink parts are called the upper and lower vermilion, the border between the skin and the vermilion is called the vermilion border, the wet, shiny inner portion of what people call the "lips" is called the wet vermilion or the mucosa.

2016年3月29日 · Recently, a woman I know who lives in England (OK, she's my fiancee, if you want to know), wrote to me and described someone she knows as "a bit of a tartar".

2017年9月1日 · I heard this expression in the TV series Better Call Saul. A character spoke to a secretary, and he seemed annoyed. After he spoke to her chief and said "your secretary is a real pip". What that ...

2011年4月1日 · I came across the word “a tad” which is unfamiliar to me in today’s New York Times’ article, titled “Yankees Bracing for Cold in Opener and in April.” The article starts with the following line: “

I would like to create a list of terms, from beginner to expert, using as many terms as possible which represent different levels of expertise. I have constructed by myself: Newbie Novice Rookie