the word scab in regards a strike, where did it come from,?
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Social Climbing Admin(istrative) B**tard.\na Strike breaker often directly bought in by management recruited from outside the area usually, and employed specifically to break the strike.  By the way acronym given above is pure speculation the simple English word scab was probably scurrilous enough on it's own.\nIt has been around for at least 2 centuries.
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"A Scarborough Warning is to let something go by the run and without seeing that everyone was clear, i.e., with no warning at all. The expression is of very ancient origin, as is also Jedburgh Justice , which in the old moss trooping days meant to hang first and try the case afterwards."\n\n"The expression "Jeddart justice" or "Jethart Justice", where a man was hanged first, and tried afterward (compare Lynch law), seems to have arisen from one case of summary execution of a gang of villains."\n\n"give her what we call in uk the scarbrough warning!tell her how youfeel,how shes treating you..are a human or a door mat,because shes wiping her feet all over you...just imagine the conversation shes having when she talks to her female mates...all about you..yor a wimp..soft touch... \nweak as p*ss...and so on...so tell her thats it enoughs enough!!if she doesnt stop shes out of your life forgood..let her go she deserves a bloke who can fight back...(not into female violance)but a good crack wouldnt go a miss...best wishes"
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Here's a website on word origins that has a few suggestions:\n\nhttp://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/5/messages/97.html
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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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It originates from the old scoresheet.  A swinging strike is denoted with a K.  Backwards K means swinging strike I would imagine just to differentiate between the two.\n\nNote:  The backwards K was later introduced as a called third strike is also marked on scoresheets as KC.
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The origin of the word f**k is lost in the sands of time, I'm afraid, but most of the apocryphal stories about it (that it's an acronym for "fornication under consent of the King", or "for unlawful carnal knowledge" for instance) don't even seem to have a shred of truth.\n\nIn all likelihood, the word is descended from the German word "ficken", which means "to strike, or club".  When the Saxons invaded England and their language merged with the natives and became entwined in middle English, the word became "fucken" (no, I'm not kidding).\n\nSo, considering what a good, hard f**k is actually like (sorry to be crude, but think about any time you've seen a guy going hog wild in the sack and you'll get the point), you can see where people would pick up using the word as slang for the act, especially considering what an erect penis looks like... and from there it became the ever so infamous "f-word".\n\n=)
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Stutsbury derives from Old English around the early 13th Century. It is a conjugation of two words.\nThe word "stutte" meaning to stop, stay or remain.\nThe word "bury" (today's borough) meaning a manor house or an enclosed fortified place.\n\nMost likely the Family name was assigned because a distant relative was the proprietor or owner of such a safe place along an ancient road or trade route.
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Looks like a bunch of folks here are just looking for points... \n\nThe person asking the question knows that "K" means strikeout. \n\nSo what's with the one-word answer 'strikeout'... lazy-a** people out there...\n\nYes, "K" is the official scoring symbol for strikeout, since "S" was already being used to denote a sacrifice.
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The word nail comes from the latin "unguis", which does mean finger nail, but also "claw". This may be why we use it to mean "a pointed fastener".
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Meaning\n\nTo be caught in the act of commiting a crime. The red hands come from the victim's blood. \n\nOrigin\n\nThis originates in 15th century Scotland. Walter Scott provides the earliest printed version of the phrase in Ivanhoe, where it appears as 'taken red handed'.
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We would say "pinch, poke..you owe me a coke"\nI imagine it originated in some play ground somewhere....obviously after coke originated
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If you mean the origin of the "word" it means \n0(zero) Killed. It was used during the war and it was also symbolized with a thumb up.\nI've also heard that it comes from old English and O.K. were the initials for All Correct wich were suposed to be spelled Oll "Korrect" (O.K.). But the first choice is probably the korrect one.
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it means f**K It.\n\nNo, actually, it is not Damn it.  Sod is a word for sex (explicit) as in "Sod off, you!"
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Bollocks.\n\nIt was a saying made up from so called skilled tradesmen because the so called jack of all trades were showing them up and proving anybody could do their jobs with a little practise.
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It is an idiom intended to mean "be careful, pay attention to detail"  it has morphed, in recent times, to mean many other things including "be polite".\n\nThere are several theories about it's origin, but the one I believe makes the most sense is - mind your Pints and Quarts.  Meaning to keep track of what you order in a pup so you are not over charged.
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Most literally translating to "trying to get a reaction" out of somebody. Originated from a 16th century technique to determine death by literally blowing tobacco smoke into someone's anus (through a long pipe) - where a reaction indicated that the person was still alive.
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I don't know i am Flabbergasted! Joking!\n\nThe British comedian Frankie Howerd used to say in mock astonishment: “I’m flabbergasted—never has my flabber been so gasted!”. That’s about as good an explanation for the origin of this word as you’re likely to get. It turns up first in print in 1772, in an article on new words in the Annual Register. The writer couples two fashionable terms: “Now we are flabbergasted and bored from morning to night”. (Bored—being wearied by something tedious—had appeared only a few years earlier.) Presumably some unsung genius had put together flabber and aghast to make one word.\n\nThe source of the first part is obscure. It might be linked to flabby, suggesting that somebody is so astonished that they shake like a jelly. It can’t be connected with flapper, in the sense of a person who fusses or panics, as some have suggested, as that sense only emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. But flabbergasted could have been an existing dialect word, as one early nineteenth-century writer claimed to have found it in Suffolk dialect and another—in the form flabrigast— in Perthshire. Further than this, nobody can go with any certainty.