Where does the term luke warm come from?
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Well, back in merry old England in the 1600s a relative of the king named Luke Huxtable died and was found in his bed a couple of hours after death by his daughter.  The body had begun to cool, but had not cooled off all the way.  He was "Luke warm."  The phrase was entered into common usage by coroners who, upon observing a body and checking for vital signs, would gauge the temperature of the body to determine how long the person had been dead.  For example: "Is the body cold?"  "No, but it's Luke warm, so he's been dead a couple of hours."
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Its a term of respect for minor nobility.  It comes from the anglo-saxon word hlaefdig which means something like "the maker of the bread."  Traditionalist Wiccans use it in reference to women who've attained the rank of third degree.  Wiccans also sometimes use it to refer to the Wiccan Goddess in situations where they would prefer not to use Her "True" or "Secret" name.
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clap (n.) \n"gonorrhea," 1587, of unknown origin, perhaps from M.E. claper, from O.Fr. clapoire, originally "rabbit burrow" but given a slang extension to "brothel." Originally also a v., "to infect with clap."
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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 WAS TOLD A FEW YEARS AGO THAT THE WORD "BIPPY" COMES FROM LONDON, ENGLAND WHICH MEANS A CUP OF TEA OR A SPOT OF TEA.\nCHECK REFERENCES OR SLANG WORDS.COM
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It means you a wimp, a softie, a pushover, a pu$$y, a wuss.  It doesn't mean gay.  Why would people say that???  \n\nWhen it is used to refer directly to girl's butt (such as when a boy is using slang to flirt with a girl, like "let me get some of that candyass")--that's when it means nice booty, or sweet stuff (in a sexual and flirtatious way).\n\nhope this helps :)
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The expression "Put up your dukes" comes from old Cockney rhyming slang: "Put up your forks. Put up your Duke of Yorks." (forks refer to fingers and hence your hands)\n\nHowever there is a line of thought that the phrase "put up your dukes" and "duke it out" refer to the name of the God of Boxing, Polydeuces
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It's an informal/slang Spanish/Latino word for "handsome man".  It's not from a song, just from the culture and the language.\n\nCheers, K
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I'm not entirely sure, but I think it originated with the Rolling Stones as they described their backstage parties for an interview of somesort. The saying has pretty much been adopted by every rock group and wannabe rocker eversince as a way of answering why they're in the music buisness.
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It seems to have come out of the military.  Originally the A stood for Arse (or the three letter word meaning the same).  Now the phrase has been modified (soldiers telling their girlfriends what it means) by saying that the A stands for Awesome.\nThe phrase is used to express any emotion, but usually implies agreement with what had just been said.
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Are you referring to its use in tennis?\nOr to some other definition. It has several etymologies.\n\nLove: the emotion\nEtymology:Middle English, from Old English LUFU; akin to Old High German LUBA: love, from Old English LEOF dear, from Latin LUBRE, LIBRE: to please\nDate:before 12th century\n\nLove in tennis: from L'ouef, the egg French
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British racial term originating in the colonial period of the British Empire. It was generally used as a label for the natives of India, North Africa and the Middle East. By the 1950s it had become a pejorative term used in order to offend.\n\nThe origins of the term are unclear. Most dictionaries say "wog" either possibly or likely derives from the generic term golliwog after the Golliwogg, a "grotesque" blackface minstrel doll-character from a children's book published in 1895. Various facetious explanations include the claim that it originated from acronyms for "Westernized/Worthy/Wily Oriental Gentleman" or variants thereof, or for "Workers of Government" or "Wards of Government", used to refer to early immigrants into the United Kingdom. Such attempts to explain the word's origin are apocryphal at best.
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I've been racking my brain for a good while on this one!\n\nI wonder if you are looking to convert these base words to "fried" adjectives [such as chicken-fried, fever-fried, and butter-fried].\n\nThe next best answer I came up with is "yellow" (yellow-chicken or chicken-yellow; yellow-fever; and yellow-butter or butter-yellow).\n\nIn that same vein, "spring" [spring-chicken; spring-fever; and spring-butter(?) or butter-spring(?)] or "dance" [chicken-dance; dance-fever; and dance-butter(?) or butter-dance(?)] might even apply.\n\nAfter all this work, I hope it is not something as generic as simply adding "-like" or "-free" to the end of each word.
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It's originally Gelaye, and is from France.  It was a Huguenot name.
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This expression originated in the United States in about 1900. The phrase may have some Latin connection. When a Roman boy was in trouble, he cried ‘patrue mi Patruissime’ (‘Uncle my best of uncles’).
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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!
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Apparently it was first used in the 1938 film, "Bringing Up Baby":\nBringing Up Baby (1938) was the first film to use the word gay in reference to homosexuality. In a scene where Cary Grant's clothes have been sent to the cleaners, he must wear a lady's feathery robe. When another character inquires about his clothes, he responds "Because I just went gay...all of a sudden!"