Where does the term "neenees" come from?
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it is most likely just something that your family made up to symbolize the word pajamas.
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Im not sure if the term originated in WWII or  from the Vietnam war. \nBut I know it originated cause solders married local women and brought them to the US after the war.
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The origin of the term is disputed. One theory customarily held by persons not from New England claims that it originated from the Dutch in old New Amsterdam (today known as New York City) in the Mid-Atlantic States. It then was adopted by the British as a pejorative for (Northern) colonists. The origin might have been the phrase Jan Kees ("John Cornelius") (two very common Dutch names), which the English-speaking people picked up as "yankees", a word they used to refer to the Dutch.
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when i searched this word i just found that it could be a mistaken form of kwanzaa, when african americans come together to celebrate thier heritage and ancestors.The dude that started it came from west africa
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Mangali means barber in Indian, is this what you mean? \n\nThe institution of barber is a very old one in India. Usually barbers belong to a hereditary caste or clan, variously called Mangali, Vostaad, Hajjam, Nayee, or Nayi-brahmin.  They point out, since they take part in "Purifying and cleaning" for everybody, they can jolly well call themselves Brahmin.\n\nThey shave their heads for ceremonies and rather not intermarry
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Please visit :\nhttp://www.indiaexpress.com/specials/babynames/\nYou'll get the complete range of Indian nemes - each with their origin, plus meanings !\nHappy hunting !
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No, where are they from?
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perukemaker--used in colonial days. From a french word meaning wig
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Indian Giver\nThere are two popular etymologies for this term for a person who gives a gift only to later demand its return. The first is that it is based on an unfair stereotype of Native Americans, that they don't keep their word. In the other popular explanation, the term doesn't cast aspersions on Native Americans, instead it echoes the broken promises the whites made to the Indians. Neither is accurate, although the first is closer to the truth.\n\nInstead the term comes from different commercial practices. To the Native Americans, who had no concept of money or currency, gifts were a form of trade goods, of exchange. One didn't give a gift without expecting one of equivalent value in return. If one could not offer an equivalent return gift, the original gift would be refused or returned. To the Europeans, who with their monetary-based trade practices, this seemed low and insulting, gifts were not for trade but were to be freely given.\n\nThe noun Indian gift dates to 1765. Indian giver follows about a century later in 1865. Originally, these reflected simply the expectation of a return gift. By the 1890s, the sense had shifted to mean one who demands a gift back.
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I only knew recently that:\n- "wawa" used in Egypt by children or said to children to mean a cut or pain because of a cut, is originally Pharaonic.\n- "werwer" used in Egypt by people who sell vegetables, saying some vegetable is "werwer" esp. watercress (to attract buyers) is also originally Pharaonic and it means green!
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These words come from different root languages and time periods. Check out this Wikipedia link:
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If you mean, "why are the called skippers?", it's just a slang term.  Presumably it derives from maritime terminology.
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tere = your\ndil = heart\nmein = in\nsanso = breaths\nko = [no word assigned in english per se]\njagah = place\nmil = get\njaaye = [no word in english]\n\ntere = your\nishq = love\nmein = in\nmeri = my\njaan = life\nfanaa = destryed\nho jaye = become\n\nIf my breaths find an abode in your heart, my life will be destroyed (lost) in your love.
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It is a Hindi phrase.Used colloquially, it means one who is in the way.\n\nIt is Kabab mein Haddi.
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I think it's a euphemism for "jacksh-t"\nSo now the question is, where did THAT phrase come from?
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Spelling it "tickety-boo" I found:\n\n"But some find a link with the British Army in India, suggesting it comes from the Hindi phrase tikai babu, which is translated as “it’s all right, sir”."
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Sumey\nmeans flower\nasian origin