snog, n: a stick used for 'cock-squoyling' A glossary of Berkshire words and phrases, Volume 20, Issue 3 - Job Lowsley (1888). Sadly not helpful in this case. (For those that are interested, cock-squoyling is a game that involves throwing sticks (or squoils, snogs) at cocks). snog (Mx.): a nod: The cow gave a snog, ie. a push with the head

2012年12月8日 · Having looked to urban dictionary, witionary, online etymology, dictionary.com, Wikipedia and wordfreaks.tribe.net, I have found a wide variance in the etymology and definition of the word snog. I believe this to be a British phrase meaning simply kissing, but several of the above references push it to the level of making out.

Webster's claims that canoodle comes from the German knudeln:. Ger knudeln, to cuddle < or akin to LowG knuddel, a knot, clump, dim. of dial.

All three are in use, and the differences are subtle; but they do exist. "Covered by" generally means that the covering actually hides the thing that is covered: it would usually be an object (a sheet, a lid, a curtain) rather than a substa

2016年3月16日 · From The Rotarian - Aug 1935 The hoary, bromidic saw "you can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy," is true in proportion to its age.

2011年12月25日 · Here’s the OED’s etymological note (lightly edited): First mentioned in 1772 as a new piece of fashionable slang; possibly of dialectal origin; Moor 1823 records it as a Suffolk word, and Jamieson, Supplement 1825, has flabrigast, 'to gasconade' [to boast extravagantly], flabrigastit 'worn out with exertion', as used in Perthshire.

2011年7月13日 · I’ve noticed that a very large proportion of the names of mineral species and mineral groups end in -ite and (less commonly,) -ine or -ene.

2011年10月3日 · As all good sayings do, it comes from a sailor. The following is an excerpt from Memoirs of Serjeant Paul Swanston: being a narrative of a soldier's life, in barracks, ships, camps, battles, and captivity on sea and land; with notices of …