what is the word origin of dogleg?
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I think this is one of those that looks obvious and is exactly what it looks like.  The origin of the word "dogleg" is the shape of the hind leg of a dog--crooked, with a bend in the middle.
292922
not so sure of the origin and history behind the phrase but if you find it ranining cat's and dogs be careful not to step in a poodle... i looked it up for you and yu can find the answer at the link below
163513
The word "d*ldo" is possibly a corruption of Italian "diletto" (for "delight"). [1]\n\nThe word may derive from the words "Dil Doul", literally meaning an erect penis. The phrase is used in an old song named "The Maids Complaint for want of a Dil Doul". The song was among many in the Library of Samuel Pepys.
726125
Well it does come from the song Yankee Doodle Dandy but the question is where does Yankee come from. You Yanks called us Limeys and that is because our sailors used to eat limes to protect against scurvy on their long sea voyages.\nBTW the Cockney (London Dialect) for a Yank is a  "Septic" from "Septic Tank" which in true Cockney rhyming slang  form the "Tank" rhymes with Yank but the first un-rhyming part is used, Apple and Pears meanind Stairs becomes Apples, Currant Bun meaning Sun becomes Currant,Frog and Toad meaning  Road becomes Frog.\nSo 'the Septic went up the Apples and had a Lemon' translates to 'the Septic Tank went up the Apple and Pears to have a Lemon Squash' i.e. 'the Yank went up the stairs and had a wash!'. Whole conversations can be had using Cockney rhyming slang!!\nGuess it doesn't answer your question but goes to show how bizarre our language is!
415806
"Where did the name ‘dragonfly’ originate? \nAnswer: We have not been able to find a definitive answer to this question. One interesting theory about its origin, however, can be found in a book written by Eden Emanuel Sarot in 1958 entitled Folklore of the Dragonfly: A Linguistic Approach. He theorized that the name dragonfly actually came about because of an ancient Romanian Folktale. In the folktale, the Devil turned a beautiful horse ridden by St. George (of St. George and the dragon fame) into a giant, flying insect. The Romanian names the people supposedly refed to this giant insect (when translated into English) mean ‘St. George’s Horse’ or, more commonly, ‘Devil’s Horse.’ According to Sarot, the peasantry of that time actually viewed the Devil’s Horse as a giant fly and that they may have started referring to it as the ‘Devil’s Fly’ (instead of Devil’s Horse). He stated that the Romanian word for Devil was "drac," but that drac was also the Romanian word for dragon. He thought that eventually the Romanian name for the Devil’s Fly was erroneously translated to the English Dragon Fly and this eventually evolved into the "dragonfly!"  "
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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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In Middle English it was farten, while in Old English it was thought to be *feorten (that is a reconstruction as the Old English form has not survived in writing).  The Indo-European root is *perd- "to fart, to break wind".  That root gave Greek perdon "fart", which turns up in the genus name of a type of mushroom, the puffball, also know as the "wolf's fart" (from the literal translation of its Greek name: lycoperdon).  Puffballs shoot their spores out in what resembles a puff of smoke, hence this name and the English dialect name puck-fist ("Puck's fart"). \n\nThe Indo-European root *perd- is thought by some to have been imitative of the sound of farting.  Other languages with similarly-derived words are German (farzen), Swedish (fjarta), Danish (fjerte), Russian (perdet), Polish (pierdziec), and Greek (pordizo).  Oh, and let's not forget English partridge!  Etymologically it is the "farting bird" because the name derives from Greek perdix, which refers to the whirring sound the bird makes when suddenly flushed out of hiding.  The Greeks thought it sounded like farting!\n\nWe can't move on before telling you that the earliest occurrence of a form of fart in the English written record comes from a song called The Cuckoo Song, or Sumer is icumen in, from about 1250:
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Origin of the word came around 1920 - 1925 ... combining the word "dingle" (by association of "dangle") and berry.\n\nSome INTERESTING info:\n\nAfter coming to Scotland in the middle ages with the great movement of Viking settlers, the ancestors of the Dingleberry family lived in Dingall, in the county of Ross, Scotland.  The place-name is derived from the Old English word dingle, which meant valley or hollow.
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This phrase stems from a kissing booth at a carnival that was held in Podunk, Iowa.  It turns out that the young lady that was going to occupy the booth was thrown from the animal that she was riding on the way to said boot and injured her mouth so they decided to use the animal that she was riding, her Jackass.  So for a buck you could kiss to her jackass, or as she would say “kiss my jackass”, and over time it was shorten too, well you know.
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"The OED cites an 1811 reference to a "pig" as a Bow Street Runner--the early police force, named after the location of their headquarters, before Sir Robert Peel and the Metropolitan Police Force (see above.) Before that, the term "pig" had been used as early as the mid-1500s to refer to a person who is heartily disliked."\n\n2nd link shows the Cleveland Police Seal, looking suspicously porcine...
1093292
Ever heard the expression "Dirty Dog"?\n\nAria\n\n*The illnovelist*
833115
Here's a website on word origins that has a few suggestions:\n\nhttp://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/5/messages/97.html
1038469
It comes from the ancient Hebrew words that loosley translate to\nwhat a load of crap
34903
Dog, obviously.  There's no relation.  'Dog' comes from the Old English word 'docga' and is the everyday word for Canis familiaris.  Old English, at its oldest, datest to the 5th Century C.E.  The word 'God' comes from the Old English 'gheu'.  As the language evolved into Modern English, the spelling and pronunciation of 'gheu' became corrupted to 'god' as our language took on its modern Germanic characterists.  As you can clearly see, the two words originally were not at all closely related, and the resultant coincidence in them being the other's inverse comes from chance.  Also, unlike 'docga', which simplu changed forms, 'gheu' was gradually respelled using the evolving Germanic pronunciations (try saying 'gheu' outloud, your English brain will almost instinctively try to stick a 'd' sound at the end).  I suppose its coincidence in the end (just like how Evian spelled backwards is Naive ;)
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This does not exist in an "english" dictionary.  Could the word derive from another language possiby and be translated/related to english?\n\nGreat source:    http://www.m-w.com/
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It's a euphemism for "damn hell" originating in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, when many such euphemisms became popular, such as\n\nGee whiz\nGosh darn\nCrimeny\nJeez\nDash it all\nHoly cow\nHoly moley\nCripes\n...and many, many, many more.
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(U.S. & UK Commonwealth) an Italian (sometimes any Southern European), especially an immigrant; probably originated in the U.S., but later spread to other countries. Probably derives from the Neapolitan slang term guappo! (pretty/handsome one), often used by the first immigrants from Italy to address or call to each other. Popular etymology gives the origin as "WithOut Passport", although some believe the acronym derived from "WithOut Papers" or "Without Official Papers", suggesting illegal immigration. This folk etymology sometimes combines the term with "guinea" to form "Giny Wop," with Giny being an acronym for Going Into New York, hence "Going Into New York Without Official Papers".