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Meaning and usage of the swear word pronounced /ˈkʰʌnt/? [closed]
I’ve been hearing the word cunt used several times now. What kind of situations do you usually use this word, and what sort of person does this swear word usually describe?
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How offensive is a word f**k in English? [duplicate]
I hear it quite often in movies, radio , books, songs even in some interviews with actors .In my native language is a word like that very strong and awfully offensive but I think it is not that strong ...
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How should I use the phrasal verb “to d**k around”?
To waste time
Stop dicking me around and get to the point.
Would you please stop dicking around with her?
To take advantage of
You're dicking him around, you know?
Don't ...
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Is it safe to use “old” to mean “previous” for a person?
Is it safe to use "old" to mean "previous" or "former" for something like "my old teacher"? Or is it a bit risky, because "old" also has a meaning with respect to age (i.e., chronologically gifted)?
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Isn't “dummy” in “HTML Parser for Dummies” considered offensive?
What does "dummy" mean here (in the section Getting Started)?
Getting Started
For novice users, an introductory guide on how to set
up your environment to use the HTML Parser is provided in ...
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Does “prescriptive” have solely a negative sense in some communities?
Motivation: I recently used this phrase:
(1) people who read English prescriptive grammar books
I was aware from personal experience that a significant number of people (maybe not a majority, ...
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Meaning of “play to” and “f****t”
According to Urban Dictionary the other sense of faggot means "stupid or a loser"--is that correct? And what's the meaning of "playing to the camera"?
P1: guy has the mannerisms of a faggot
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Why do they call the counterpart “that woman” to press corps after parting from a female?
Further to my question I posted yesterday on the significance of the term “woman driver” used by Rush Limbaugh, I have another question:
Limbaugh’s use of ‘woman driver’ in a derogatory context ...
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Difference between “smart” and “clever”
What is the difference between smart and clever?
As far as I understand the latter is offensive. But the Cambrige Dictionary gives similar definitions of smart and clever.
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Is “senility” pejorative?
Could you please give your opinion on whether or not "senility" is a pejorative term?
My sentence is:
Although there wasn't any real upper age limit, elders who seemed to be affected by senility ...
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What is the origin and history of the word “motherf---er”?
I'm not a native English speaker, but I would like to know how and why people started using mother fucker. Today it seems it has lost its meaning because people use it all the time, but was there a ...
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Is it true that “tuppence” refers to a woman's vagina in British English slang? If so, why?
I was looking up a definition online, as I often do, in this case the British slang word tuppence; I got the standard "a slang reference to a coin denomination" definition from Wikipedia, but stumbled ...
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What is the meaning of “I'm a wiener”?
I have scoured out dictionaries searching for the word wiener without success. As you can notice I am not a native speaker.
I usually see the this phrase as a demeaning joke on animations when some ...
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Is it better to be “hung like a pike” or “hung like a stickleback”?
More from the British movie The Football Factory. The background is that the main character and his best friend have picked up these two girls at a bar; things proceed swimmingly, and the two head ...
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What exactly does “fap” mean? [NSFW]
Sorry for the ridiculous question, but I can't understand the difference between fap and masturbation. Does fap mean the whole progress?
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Why did the descriptive, “Orientals”, shift into a pejorative?
It seems as if a shift occurred and the descriptive "Oriental" was replaced by "Asian" as the accepted term in polite society — what caused this shift?
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Origin and meaning of “damn straight”
The phrase "damn straight" is now used as a way to emphatically agree with a statement, but where does it come from, and what did it mean originally?
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What does “to pick someone's cherry” mean?
Does it strictly refer to taking someone's virginity, or does it express sexual intercourse in general?
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Is f**kstick really an abusive word?
I have heard the word fuckstick in a lot of Hollywood movies, most notably in 'The Shawshank Redemption'.
What is this word even meant to convey? An insult? Is it even abusive? Or is just a ...
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Non-sexual meaning of “to have a hard-on for someone”
What does it mean to "have a hard-on for someone" in a non-sexual sense? I've heard it used in contexts that make it seem like the subject is acting aggressive or belligerent toward "someone". Is that ...
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What does 'mothercanuckers' mean?
First of all, sorry if it is offensive (I think it somewhat is).
I was going through http://bleacherreport.com/articles/424590-the-funniest-promos-and-moments-in-wwe-history#page/20
The Rock ...
