Dec 9, 2023 · funky "old, musty," in reference to cheeses, then "repulsive," from funk ["bad smell," 1620s, from dialectal Fr. funkière "smoke"]. It began to develop an approving sense in jazz …

Aug 8, 2010 · The Chicago Manual of Style refers to them as "braces". 6.102 "Braces, {}, often called curly brackets, provide yet another option for enclosing data and are used in various …

Oct 7, 2012 · You are right. I probably choose your answer as the right one. But I guess I am going to leave this open for a while in case someone offers a creative and funny one. I once …

Feb 7, 2011 · Nobody really knows. There's no agreed derivation of the expression 'hunky-dory'. It is American and the earliest example of it in print that I have found is from a collection of US …

This question ought to be reopened, because the current answers are basically wrong. Whether or not other usage in youth culture pre-dates it, sick became slang for pretty much the …

Here is the entry for all get-out in Harold Wentworth, American Dialect Dictionary (1944):. all get-out. 1. To an extreme degree; —used with like or as.

Nov 26, 2020 · As reported from the NOAD: ORIGIN middle 16th Century: from obsolete French coronel (earlier form of colonel), from Italian colonnello (column of soldiers) from colonna …

Jan 4, 2016 · The funky gibbon. The two long 'o's in 'who' and 'you' are separated by a single short word also beginning with 'o'. Moreover, there are no hard consonants or sibilants to …

Aug 22, 2011 · Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for …

May 30, 2014 · @NuclearHoagie Hey don't give ’em any funky ideas or pretty soon they really will demand that the grammar be changed, like by insisting that this capitalized color term be place …