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.44 Magnum revolver.
Lingam is slang for penis.
money. Popular Australian slang for money, now being adopted elsewhere. Variations on the same theme are motser, motzer, motza, all from the Yiddish (Jewish European/Hebrew dialect) word 'matzah', the unleavened bread originally shaped like a large flat disk, but now more commonly square (for easier packaging and shipping), eaten at Passover, which suggests earliest origins could have been where Jewish communities connected with English speakers, eg., New York or London (thanks G Kahl). Popularity is supported (and probably confused also) with 'lingua franca' medza/madza and the many variations around these, which probably originated from a different source, namely the Italian mezzo, meaning half (as in madza poona
half-a-crown (2/6) from the mid 1800s. A combination of medza, a corruption of Italian mezzo meaning half, and a mispronunciation or interpretation of crown. Madza caroon is an example of 'ligua franca' slang which in this context means langauge used or influenced by foreigners or immigrants, like a sort of pidgin or hybrid English-foreign slang, in this case mixed with Italian, which logically implies that much of the early usage was in the English Italian communities. Mezzo/madza was and is potentially confused with, and popularity supported by, the similar 'motsa' (see motsa entry).
sou’wester (hat worn by fisherman)
Good, excellent. Introduced to contributors school by "Abo" Harris, a boy who lived in (then) Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and derived from the Chilapalapa (the lingua franca of the southern African mines) term "moshe steric" = very good, excellent. (ed: so there ya go - more education. Who said this site was just filth??)
n homosexual. A mildly derogatory term for a homosexual - mild in the sense that homosexuals might use it themselves. Although based upon that I could easily say that “nigger” was a mildly derogatory term for an African American. poofy effeminate. An episode of Magnum PI, the U.S. detective show, features Magnum himself describing Zeus and Hercules as “poofy names for attack dogs.” Whilst in the U.S. this is taken to mean “fancy,” in the U.K. it would quite definitely mean “homosexual.”
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half-a-crown (2/6) from the mid-1900s, and rarely also slang for a crown (5/-), most likely based in some way on madza caroon ('lingua franca' from mezzo crown), perhaps because of the rhyming, or some lost cockney rhyming rationale.
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
Verb. To mess about, to laze about.
Pangy is British slang for five pounds sterling.
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
n trashcan. CanÂ’t think of anything particularly witty to add.
Grogan is British slang for a thick head of hair.
King Dick is London Cockney rhyming slang for brick.King Dick is London Cockney rhyming slang for stupid (thick).
v. when a riders face gets covered with spots of mud, making him look like "John Boy" on the Waltons. "I hit that mudhole and got John boy'ed big time."
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Set about any task with energy and a determination.
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n.
Alt. of Lingam
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A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.
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Alt. of Lignous
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See Lignin.
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The lingua of an insect.
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The pignut.
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See Lignin.
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The thickening matter of woody cells; lignin.
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See Lignin.
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of Lingua
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A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants. Cf. Lignin, and Cellulose.
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A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum.
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A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal bone.
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A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (Linum usitatissimum).
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of Pignus
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A tongue.
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A large wine bottle.
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Lignum-vitae.
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Lignin.
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