reference to someone
91dive — [OE] Old English dyfan ‘dive’ came from a prehistoric Germanic *dūbjan. This was a derivative of the base *d(e)ub , a variant of which, *d(e)up , was the source of English deep and dip. The colloquial use of the noun for a disreputable bar,… …
92misery — A vocative which comments on the miserable demeanour of a person at a given moment, or perhaps on his general disposition. Georgy Girl, by Margaret Forster, has ‘Misery’ used as an intimacy between lovers. In St Urbain’s Horseman, by Mordecai… …
93in profile — (in reference to someone s face) as seen from one side a photograph of Leon in profile …
94cornbread — Reference to the song No sex in the champagne room by Chris Rock. In it he says Cornbread.... Ain t nothin wrong with that. So I made up this word to mean that someone is perfect and you can t find anything wrong with her, just like cornbread.… …
95cornbread — Reference to the song No sex in the champagne room by Chris Rock. In it he says Cornbread.... Ain t nothin wrong with that. So I made up this word to mean that someone is perfect and you can t find anything wrong with her, just like cornbread.… …
96Wikipedia:Featured article candidates — Here, we determine which articles are to be featured articles (FAs). FAs exemplify Wikipedia s very best work and satisfy the FA criteria. All editors are welcome to review nominations; please see the review FAQ. Before nominating an article,… …
97List of British words not widely used in the United States — Differences between American and British English American English …
98List of sports idioms — The following is a list of phrases derived from sports which have become idioms (slang or otherwise) in English. They have evolved a usage and meaning independent of sports and are often used by those with little knowledge of these games. The… …
99Epicureanism — Stephen Everson It is tempting to portray Epicureanism as the most straightforward, perhaps even simplistic, of the major dogmatic philosophical schools of the Hellenistic age. Starting from an atomic physics, according to which ‘the totality of… …
100List of English words with disputed usage — Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious between writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. The contentious usages are especially common in spoken English. While in some circles the usages below may make the speaker… …
