About terminology....Why is it called a bellhop bell+hop? Where did the hop part of that come from?
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Not sure about fashion, but bellhop bell-hop is the guy at the hotel who takes your bags to your room, or at least in the old days they did.\n\nThe hotel manager would ring the desk "bell" and the boy/guy had to "hop" to it and get the customers bags... Pronto!
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Hi,\n\nI would venture that the term you are asking for is 'coining' a new phrase or term. If the newly coined term is a set of words instead of one morpheme (word), then it may be called coining a new 'fixed expression' or 'idiom', although coining something new does not necessarily guarantee that it will become part of the collective 'vocabulary' or lexico-grammatical awareness of world English dialects.
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I used to be a server and we used to say that all the time but I had no idea where it came from.  So...  I tried to find some info and this is a website I found.  I hope it answers your questions.  I found it interesting.  \n\nhttp://www.dinermuseum.org/culture/culture-slang.php
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Round-off Double back-handspring double back layout. \nJust Joking.\n\nRound-off Double back-handspring!!!!!!!!\n(not joking)
536517
I'm not sure if it lends itself directly to the context you are using it for but there used to be a sort of country fair game called a cake walk.  People pay a certain amount to enter and are each given a cake or sweet on a plate.  Then they walk around a circular path to music and when the music ends the person who is standing inside a circle on the ground wins the cake they are carrying.  It's a pretty easy way of getting a cake so maybe that's why something easy is called "cakewalk"?
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Ballismus comes from the Greek word "ballismos" meaning "a jumping about" or "dancing." according to this site:\nhttp://staff.washington.edu/chudler/questions.html
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Old British Term from 1800s meaning "pints & quarts".  Now it's slang for minding your manners, like please & thank you.
745295
I believe it is from the use of rhyming to emphasise something being great! As in "the bees knees". This then became "the mutt's nuts", which translated into non-rhyming is "the dog's bollocks". WHY? I don't know.
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This was first introduced to most Americans in the 1977 airing of "Roots" when an African tribal leader warned his warriors to beware of the white man because he smelled like a wet chicken.  Rarely do you hear this talked about much.  I've been around black folks my entire professional career and I've never heard the wet dog comment before.  I don't have any good explanation at all, but there is a distinctly different smell to blacks and whites when they perspire.  Having played sports my entire life I could shut my eyes and generally tell if I was next to a white or black person perspiring, but I don't know that I would describe as one being better or worse than the other--just different.
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I think it actually came from the song. Was created specifically to go along with it. The origin of the dance is actually in dispute right now. See link below.
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there is some proverb . i have forgotten the actual words. it is like tea calling the teapot (kettle ) black or some thing. anyway i have given the clue. somebody will come out with proper  proverb for u here.
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I heard a few theories on this on a TV show which was investigating where today's words come from...\nI THINK that it has something to do with the fact that centuries ago, nutmeg was the word used to refer to a guy's whatsits...\nSorry i can't help any more, but I've forgotten most of it!
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The word Spam is actually a mix of "spiced" and "ham" so, I guess if the chicken is spiced, it would be called spicken.  Hey, I like that word, spicken. Cool!
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Hardly, it's slang. And if you need to really need to know, I won't go into details here. Look it up in the following link.
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around the 1830's because in theater the gesture was the same as "hissing" an actor- they would either hiss or "flip the bird" - now people just boo basically but in between then and now people used to boo and hiss.  The hissing sound was related to the hissing sound of geese, and thats how the term "flipping the bird" came to be.  Now we just call the middle finger the "bird" because it is the finger used when we "flip the bird"
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The proper name for the trick is a "bunny hop"\nYou pull up hard with all of your body weight and the bike comes up with you, the harder you pull up the farther your bike will come up. After some practice you will feel the bike come off the ground more than it did when you first tried it but keep trying it and dont give up, Tricks are hard to learn but after you learn them and begin doing the better you will feel a great sense of "WOOOOOOHOOOOOO" lol
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It most likely came from bugger or , like in the case of mosquiotes its Bugging me!\n\nThe term bug though is often used in the wrong context. There actually exists an Order of insects known as the "true bugs" this is the order Hemiptera\nThe words ladybug and pillbug for instance are used in correctly, neither of these are "bugs" according to entomological defintions, the ladyBug is actually a beetle, and the pillbug is actually not even an insect, it s a terrestrial crustation (Isopoda).\n\nI'll share with you some knowledge, if you see the name of an inset that is all one word for instance Mayfly, ladybug, Dragonfly, the name is actually wrong, the mayfly is not a fly, it is an Ephemeroptera, and the dragonfly is not a fly it is an Odonate\nHowever name written with 2 words are often right, such as crane fly and stink bug, these are actuall what they clain to be (diptera and Hemiptera respectively)\n\nhope this helps in some way!!!