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What Are Some Pejorative Terms for the Words "Boat" or "Ship"?
Calling a ship a boat, is sometimes considered derisive. Also, calling a type of boat by the name of another type of boat is sometimes considered insulting by its owner. If the boat is a man's mid-...
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What Are Some Pejorative Terms for the Words "Boat" or "Ship"?
A scow.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/scow
Definition #3:
an old or clumsy boat; hulk; tub.
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Derogatory word, describing person (a pupil) who memorizes instead of learning?
I believe you are wanting to use the term regurgitate (with the noun form regurgitator):
: to repeat (something, such as a fact, idea, etc.) without understanding it
Merriam-Webster
The fact the ...
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Is there a word for the joy a smart aleck feels when they point out to other people how stupid they are?
I'd say "smug" which means self-satisfaction, but is also often associated with a particularly condescending facial expression. And with your specific comment about the smile, something like this:
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Derogatory word, describing person (a pupil) who memorizes instead of learning?
There is the expression that someone is learning parrot-fashion.
Simply repeating received phrases like a trained parrot.
This is often seen as a verb, the pupil simply parrots the received lesson.
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Is the term "aspie" derogatory?
As someone with Asperger's, I'm going to take a contrary view to A.P.'s answer.
Wikipedia mentions that Aspie is used amongst sufferers:
People identifying with Asperger syndrome may refer to ...
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Derogatory word or idiom for city dwellers or people who aren't adapted to country/rural life
Per Wikipedia:
City slicker
City slicker is an idiomatic expression for someone accustomed to a city or urban lifestyle and unsuited to life in the country. The term was typically used as a ...
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What is a good word(s) for someone who excessively asks for information that they have no business knowing?
In general, this person could be described as nosy. If you happen to be in Pittsburgh, PA, you could also call the person nebby. A good noun for this is busybody.
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Pejorative for a room of low quality (esp. prison cell)
An unpleasant and dreary place can be called a dump.
Dump
noun
An unpleasant or dreary place
Why are you living in a dump like this?
Oxford Dictionaries Online, linked here, has other ...
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What are the origins and proper uses of “s***gibbon”?
My Scottish perspective on Shitgibbon
There are a couple of threads to this particular insult.
In Scotland, and I am sure in other places, we love a good, complex, overblown insult. A proper insult ...
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A derogatory term for a book or other printed material
As a well-read AE native speaker, I've never heard of "pap", so I can't recommend it for a general audience. I like "birdcage liner" - quite evocative - but honestly, the most direct expression is the ...
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Pejorative for a room of low quality (esp. prison cell)
A shithole, as defined by Oxford Dictionaries Online, is slang for a terrible place to live in.
An extremely dirty, shabby, or otherwise unpleasant place
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Has "hacker" definitely gained a negative connotation?
Has "hacker" still a neutral/positive meaning or has it definitely gained a negative reputation?
Among the general public, hacker still has a negative connotation. With the exception of "life hacks", ...
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What Are Some Pejorative Terms for the Words "Boat" or "Ship"?
One epithet for a boat that seldom leaves port is 'an expensive hole in the water'.
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Pejorative for a room of low quality (esp. prison cell)
Consider hellhole
A place of extreme wretchedness or squalor.
American Heritage Dictionary
This is often used to describe actual prisons where the conditions are extreme. Its use, however is not ...
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Idiom or expression that would imply "someone is a habitual liar"
Sounds like the person in question is full of shit!
This doesn't necessarily imply the lying is habitual, although you can modify it rather easily with any word indicating frequency:
Yea I know ...
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Word for lying while bragging/boasting
A possible idiom is "trumping [it] up". From Merriam-Webster:
Definition of trump up
transitive verb
1: to concoct especially with intent to deceive : fabricate, invent
2 archaic: to ...
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Is "allopathy" pejorative?
The word has no real meaning outside of the context of homeopathy. It's rather pejorative in that context. It's rather irrelevant in any other.
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Idiom or expression that would imply "someone is a habitual liar"
I've often heard "lies like a rug"
From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs:
to tell lies shamelessly. He says he didn't take the money, but he's
lying like a rug. I don'...
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What is a good word(s) for someone who excessively asks for information that they have no business knowing?
Intrusive may qualify this person or his behavior.
Definition: annoying someone by interfering with their privacy;
intruding where you are not wanted or welcome to thrust or bring in
without ...
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Is there any curse/ swear equivalent for this Persian curse? " May your head be covered by soil!"
The simple, all-purpose imprecation in U.S. English is "Drop dead!"—which is, of course, the usual stage before the soil-on-head stage. Christine Ammer, The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms (...
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Is there any curse/ swear equivalent for this Persian curse? " May your head be covered by soil!"
Although I am not aware of an exact English equivalent of the Persian curse, "To rot in hell" is a pejorative and used to aggressively retort to infuriating situations.
Usage:
What? You ...
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Alternative term for 'smoke test'
Critical Power-On Failure Test
The system or component tested failed to meet basic power-on requirements, and was unable to be safely activated. No further tests were performed.
Being the son of a ...
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Why are the French pejoratively referred to as frogs?
The OED says we’re not completely sure, but it may in part have started as a reference to the wet and marshy Low Countries and then later reïnforced by the shared initial consonant cluster between ...
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Is "Fredo" an insult to Italian-Americans?
In my estimation, it all amounts to nothing more than an emotionally-driven burst of anger and frustration. Nothing worth parsing word-for-word.
[“Fredo“] is like the n-word for us.
That's a gross ...
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Derogatory term for people from places like San Francisco
City slicker
informal, derogatory
A person with the sophistication and values generally associated with
urban dwellers. (Oxford Living Dictionaries)
someone who lives in a city and does not ...
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Somebody who pretends to understand, but doesn't
The person is a poseur (or poser) with respect to understanding.
Noun: poseur pow'zur
A person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
poser
-- WordWeb
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What Are Some Pejorative Terms for the Words "Boat" or "Ship"?
On the UK canal system, people with traditional narrow boats (70 feet long, with solid steel hulls originally designed to carry 20 tons or more of cargo) sometimes refer to fiberglass hulled craft as "...
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