How did “acker” come to mean friend in West Country English?
网页2020年7月27日 — acker a friend. Somerset usage; the jazz musician Acker Bilk, born in Pensford, Somerset, took his professional name from this dialect word. But the lack of any recorded mention of acker in this sense before the rise of Acker Bilk is striking—and somewhat puzzling. The slang term may be older than Mr. Bilk, but if so it led a …
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网页2019年2月11日 — 1. In common parlance the term hacker can be used to describe a. person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system. I wold like to know what term should be used to describe the opposite, namely someone who defends against a hacker to prevent the hacker from achieving her/his goal.
How to pronounce "AKA"? - English Language & Usage Stack …
网页2011年3月1日 — I pronounce it ay-kay-ay /ˌeɪkeɪˈeɪ/. Or I just say, "also known as". Share. Improve this answer. answered Mar 1, 2011 at 10:04. 97.6k 40 312 406. Add a comment. Add a comment. Add a comment.
Difference between etymologies of 'allocable' and 'allocatable'
网页2022年8月12日 — Mr. KRUTTSCHNITT. There was a good deal in his [Mr. Acker's] testimony about the segregation of passenger and freight expenses—a good deal said about expenses on the Lehigh Valley road. I am one of those who long ago ceased trying to do that. Just to show you how little that amounts to, I read the Atchison testimony of Mr. Kenna very …
How did "biscuit" come to have a distinct meaning in North …
网页2017年11月2日 — With regard to the Oxford Living Dictionary definition of biscuit in the North American sense as "A small, soft round cake like a scone," it bears noting that a true Southern U.S. biscuit is no sweeter than most types of bread—which is to say that the comparison to a scone is somewhat misleading, and the allusion to cake is truly off-base …
How did "ropey" come to mean "of poor quality"?
网页The OED (second edition) says the adjective ropy (ropey) comes from rope and the first meaning given is: 1.a forming or developing viscid, glutinous, or slimy threads; sticky and stringy.
etymology - How come “enemy mine” be a short version of “the …
网页BTW, the phrase also references archaic/poetic uses of the inverted form -- eg "Baby Mine", which is a song that Dumbo's mother sings to him early in that movie -- and hence expresses conflicting emotions in much the same way …
etymology - How did 'patriate' develop to mean 'transfer ... from a ...
网页2014年9月9日 — What's an intuitive derivation behind ODO's definition that helps to internalise its meaning:. to patriate = Transfer control over (a constitution) from a mother country to its former dependency:
How did the word clerical come to mean office work?
网页2023年11月6日 — OED has the full story about clerk (from which is derived clerical):. 2.a. Before the Reformation, sometimes applied esp. to members of the five ‘minor orders’ as distinct from the higher or ‘holy orders’.
How did Persian words arrive in English?
网页Oct 31, 2013 at 12:27. 1. It is true that some Persian words have arrived in English via India. But some wordsn have arrived by intractions between Roman and Sassanide empires. The word bazar aside from Persia-India-England journey, has arrived with another route: Persian-Latin (Roman Empire)-Italian-English. – Name.