Oct 15, 2012 · Another proposition: these are not exactly dirty words, but usually the order of the characters depends on a particular keyboard layout, hence we might call them qwerty words. – Kaz Commented Oct 15, 2012 at 7:13

Aug 1, 2016 · The "origin" of the term "absolutely" came from the "carTOON" industry and decades of generations of people calling the characters in WB and Disney cartoons "toons". But, the regular USAGE of the term as a replacement for the term "character" or "avatar" in gaming started with the game "ToonTown".

May 26, 2011 · Edit: Another Wikipedia page:. The big Z. It is a convention in American comics that the sound of a snore can be reduced to a single letter Z.

I've noticed that symbols (i.e. #, $, %, !, *, etc.) are commonly used to filter profanity/foul language. Just out of curiosity, is there a specific way to do

Jul 2, 2021 · In the real world no rabbit is ever going to be able to use a gun even if it could get hold of one but Bugs, being an anthropomorphised cartoon character, most certainly could. Popular cartoon characters like Bugs and Elmer insinuate themselves into the general culture to such an extent that they need little, if any, explanation when they are ...

The NOAD reports that the origin of Ugg boot is 1960s, from the name of cartoon characters (Ugh ...

Jul 25, 2014 · All this rubbish about cannons and early 60s cartoon characters is puritanical avoidance of issue and use of euphemistic metaphors. The shock value of the use of this term socially or publicly where use is by celebrties or royalty (e.g the late Prince Phillip) is precisely because it is derived from and refers to an explicitly intimate scene.

Jan 19, 2016 · What do you call this facial expression that forms just before bursting into tears? (Especially when a baby has been treated in a way he/she didn't expect and consider it unfair or feels neglected....

Apr 19, 2012 · The earliest use in print I found of the exact phrase "flip the bird" or "flipped the bird" or "flipping the bird" is from a 1967 Broadside (Volume 6, Issues 17-26).

Jun 9, 2016 · I would love to know the origin of this saying. The OED gives the first citation of the phrase from Leon Uris, "Battle Cry" in 1953 (but if it appeared in print then, it would certainly have been around for a while before that.