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(abrv.) Estimated Time of Arrival. Used to let others know how long until you reach a specified location. Example: "How long until you reach camp?" "ETA: 10 mins."
I once asked a friend if he knew any foreign slang and he came up with this phrase. He said he got it from a french boy who he asked for a few words. He said the french kid said it meant 'shit. I was laughing for 20 mins before I explained that what he heard as 'honk le dur' was actually Angleterre, i.e. he was saying the English are shit.
Relatively large black bird. Could also be a reference to "Jim Crow", a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, which later was used as the name of the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation in the South.
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Used a lot during the Civil War. He was a stereotypical minstrel show character, history described here. Also used to describe segregationist laws in the south, but I recently read about a bus driver who was fired for using the term to describe a black person.
Denotes a lad or set of lads that basically "sucked up", "arse licked" etc any or all of the most good looking girls in the school. The contributor says it was used because they said they used to serenade the girls with their lutes like Minstrels used to do in Tudor society. They used to say f-ing minstrels or lute players (often spelled as loot). Really they were just jealous of one set of popular lads, but it was funny. He also said his best mate was one of those lads and he still sometimes call him it today if he is chatting up a bird.
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This was a fairly innocuous much loved childrens toy for most of the last century until political correctness stepped in and demanded they be banned. The reason given was that these dolls were created to look more like the 'minstrels' from 'down south' than a true representation of the facial features of black africans! Well ok that might be true true, but racially denigrating?? I think not! A further result of this idiocy was that Robertsons Jams (who had been using the golliwog symbol for a hundred years was subject to repeated attempts to force them to remove the symbol from their jams and marmalades. Trouble is all the fuss did was to draw attention to the negative aspects and the creation of chants such as: get back on your jam jar, get back on your jam jar, la la la la,la la la la, (then repeated once more).
Buttocks. An unusual word heard on U.S. sitcoms but with an obscure derivation. One guess was of a corruption of the German word "Hind" (similarly with the word "hinterland). Use of the word can be controversial. Parents use it, e.g. to tell a child "You'll get a smack on your hiney!! Also used in a friendly way to refer to a man's butt, When it's used to refer to a woman's (especially attractive, etc.) behind, then it has a very definite sexually suggestive connotation to it ("woman-child"), and the word used in that context appears to be fairly unacceptable. (ed: I asked for any counter arguments). Caroline writes: I think it is a shortening of "hind end", but it's used a lot in Southern USA. Here is a schoolyard rhyme: I see your hiney so black and shiny, You better hide it before I bite it!" The following fairly comprehensive description of the word in use was sent in by John Gaither from Athens Georgia US: It is (or was, when I was in the single-digit years, before 1965) common in south Georgia, in the southeastern US. Among me and my friends (European Americans) the rhyme was: "I see your hiney So black and shiny It makes me giggle To see it wiggle." My wife (African American) recalls it thus: "I see your hiney So bright and shiny. . . ." The occasion for its recitation was when someone's "hind" end was partly or fully exposed, either by circumstance or design. It was slightly pejorative, as if the singer was laughing at or mocking the person exposed; using the word "black" fits in with this, as calling someone black was also a derogatory statement (for Americans of either European or African ancestry). I conjecture an African American origin, or association with African Americans, from the word "black." (As you may or may not know, skin pigmentation among African Americans is in fact usually darker on the buttocks and the back of the thighs; cf. "kiss my black ass."). It was always sung to the same tune, which makes me wonder if the rhyme originated in some kind of vaudeville or minstrel show, where American performers of European ancestry sometimes wore blackface and used the exaggerated mannerisms and accents of African Americans to comic effect. The rhythm and tune are as follows, as best as I can render it. three eighth-notes, quarter note, dotted quarter note three eighth-notes, quarter note, dotted quarter note (repeat) C-C-C-C-A C-C-C-C-G C-C-C-C-A C-C-C-C-G
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In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.
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The song of a minstrel; hence, any song.
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Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.
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A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs.
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A player on the harp; a minstrel.
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Musical instruments.
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A gallery for minstrels.
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A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.
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Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
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The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.
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A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.
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