Where did the term "beezee" come from?
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I believe... if I am not mistaken its from.\n\nEASY PEASY JAPANESEE
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there are two supposed origins - \n1. is from the word nut, meaning hard seed, which is called "hnutu" in Old English or "*khnut" in Proto-Germanic\n\n2. from earlier be nutts upon "be very fond of" (1785), which is possibly from nuts (noun, plural) "any source of pleasure" (1617), from nut (described above). Sense influenced probably by metaphoric application of nut to "head" (1846, e.g. to be off one's nut "be insane," 1860). Nut "crazy person, crank" is attested from 1903, (British form nutter first attested 1958).
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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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In 19th century Britain , it was used to explain sex to children by parents and teachers , using examples of birds nesting ( bringing up a family in the nest (home ) and Bees mating ( sleeping together ).it was euphemism for sex education when taught informally. The expression of the Birds and Bees ( like many )has survived to this day
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Etymology\nCreative origin by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. Yahoo, a race of brutes, who look and act like man. \nalso the rebel battle yell (southern confederate, CSA) cried with a shrill yeaaaaa hoo as in yea, though I walk in the valley of death... \n\nNoun\nA rough, coarse, or uncouth person; yokel; lout \nA loud boisterous person. \nA humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia. \n\nInterjection\nAn exclamation of joy \nA battle cry
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Etymology\nFrom the Wolof banäna, through the Spanish and Portuguese, Mandingo, and Fulani
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Used as a nickname for a native or resident of Indiana.\n\nWord History: We know where Hoosiers come from: Indiana. But where does the name Hoosier come from? That is less easy to answer. The origins of Hoosier are rather obscure, but the most likely possibility is that the term is an alteration of hoozer, an English dialect word recorded in Cumberland, a former county of northwest England, in the late 19th century and used to refer to anything unusually large. The transition between hoozer and Hoosier is not clear. The first recorded instance of Hoosier meaning “Indiana resident” is dated 1826; however, it seems possible that senses of the word recorded later in the Dictionary of Americanisms, including “a big, burly, uncouth specimen or individual; a frontiersman, countryman, rustic,” reflect the kind of use this word had before it settled down in Indiana. As a nickname, Hoosier was but one of a variety of disparaging terms for the inhabitants of particular states arising in the early 19th century. Texans were called Beetheads, for example; Alabamans were Lizards; Nebraskans were Bug-eaters; South Carolinians were Weasels, and Pennsylvanians were Leatherheads. People in Missouri might have had it worst of allthey were called Pukes. Originally, these names were probably taken up by people living in neighboring states, but belittled residents adopted them in a spirit of defiant pride, much as American colonists turned the derisive term Yankee into a moniker for their spirit of rebellion. Today, most of these frontier nicknames have disappeared from the landscape. A few like Okie still exist with much of their original animus. Others survive as nicknames for the sports teams of state universitiesthe North Carolina Tarheels, the Ohio Buckeyes, and so onfighting words only on the playing field or court.
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"Bee" is a general term. It means:\n\n"A social gathering where people combine work, competition, and amusement:"\n\nThere's such thing as a quilting bee too... I wouldn't mind having an orgy bee sometime...
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Possibly the BeeGees, a pop band from Australia whose career started around the late sixties or early seventies. Their career peaked with the movie "Saturday Night Fever".
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No one really invented the word it evolved over time to come to mean what it does today\n\nc.1340, "discharge of semen other than during sex," later, "desecration, defilement" (1382), from L.L. pollutionem (nom. pollutio) "defilement," from L. polluere "to soil, defile, contaminate," from por- "before" + -luere "smear," related to lutum "mud," and to lues "filth" (cf. Gk. lyma "filth, dirt, disgrace," lymax "rubbish, refuse," O.Ir. loth "mud, dirt," Lith. lutynas "pool, puddle"). Sense of "contamination of the environment" first recorded c.1860, but not common until c.1955. Pollute (v.) is attested from c.1380 in sense "defile," from L. pollutus, pp. of polluere. Meaning "contaminate the environment" first recorded 1954. Pollutant is from 1892.
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It means Gazelle\n\nThe name is the Afrikaans / Dutch spelling of the word rhebok, a type of African antelope or gazelle.
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I heard the term used in "Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo" w/Rob Schnieder.  It was in a board game that was played by Deuce and a client.
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In Japanese, the word baka means "idiot," "moron," "fool," or "dimwit"; it can also refer to the condition of being stupid.Baka is written with the Chinese characters 馬鹿, which literally mean "horse-deer" Another theory states that the word baka was first used by Buddhist monks, and the word originated from a Sanskrit word moha.
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I used to think it was a reference to something very common in life, like the birds and the bees are in nature. It was a kind of twisted reference to something so plain and commonplace, in a satirical way. But this question coming up here made me look around. I think the following article gives a plausible explanation.\n\nhttp://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bir1.htm
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Did you mean surname Hucks? I found one website that gives a good description of the origin, but I was unable to copy/paste it. The link is below :-)
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I used to live in the state of Indiana years ago. As far as I know, the word "hoosier" is of unknown origin. One theory that I heard was it came from the common practice of shouting "Who's here?" upon receiving visitors.
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I actually have no idea! And I'm French. So I've checked in an encyclopedia, and it says that it's still open to debate.\n\nOne of the possible origins of the word would be "serpe volante", which in Latin means "serpent volant" (flying snake), or "sèrp-volante", which means the same in Occitan. It makes sense because the first kites represented snakes or dragons.\n\nIt could also come from "Ercum volanti", "Arcum valante" or "Cercum volante", which in Latin mean "Arc volant" (flying arch). So, what's the link with the deer? Well, the deer was (still is?) wearing a crown (not sure where they saw that)... I'm not sure I really understood what they meant. There was no pictures.