What ever happened to "fink"? - English Language & Usage Stack …
2018年9月8日 · The noun form fink is way at the bottom, followed closely by stinker, and surprisingly, motherfucker. If we focus our attention on the last three terms, and add the verb …
What's a word for someone you don't like? [closed]
2015年11月26日 · Fink: A person who you do not like. Longman Dictionary. But I prefer creep: "Leave me alone you creep." Merriam Webster "He was a real creep, he was always staring at …
Why use "need not" instead of "do not need to"?
The header of psyco.sourceforge.net states: High-level languages need not be slower than low-level ones. Why use need not instead of do not
A word that represents a group of people working to achieve a …
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"a change in ..." vs "a change to ...", any difference?
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differences - Are the expressions: "You needn't" and "You don't …
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What is a word for an officious person who tells the ending of …
Most of your commentary around the question "is there a word for someone who gives away the end of a story" has little to do with the question. "wet blanket", "too enthusiastic": those are …
slang - Are the terms "welsh" or "welch" (as in reneging on a bet ...
It was intended as derogatory, you couldn't trust a medieval Welshman. The medieval clergyman Gerald of Wales (c. 1146 – c. 1223, of mixed Norman and Welsh descent) didn't like them very …
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What happened to the “‑est” and “‑eth” verb suffixes in English?
To expand on this, morphological leveling isn't a random phenomenon. It can be difficult to track the precise reasons for a specific change, but we can conjecture that it might be similar to …