MEANING
The blues is a melancholic music of black American folk origin, usually employing a basic 12-bar chorus, the tonic, subdominant, and dominant chords, frequent minor intervals, and blue notes. 1,821 more words
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meaning and origin of ‘something nasty in the woodshed’
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MISS STELLA GIBBONS.Miss Stella Gibbons’s novel has been most favourably reviewed. It is a well-sustained parody of the Loam-and-Love-child school of fiction.
the making of ‘omelette’
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MEANING
omelette: a dish of beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan and served plain or with a savoury or sweet topping or filling… 1,296 more words
Working on Python Dictionaries
As dictionary can store many key-value pairs in fact it can store millions of items. So to handle or work with all those items python lets us loop through the dictionary. 764 more words
a linguistic investigation into hooliganism
A member of the Hooligan gang, John Darcy, aged 19, fatally stabbed Henry Mappin, a passer-by, in Oakley Street, Lambeth, London, on 15th July 1898. — illustration from… 1,623 more words
Quartz: The evolution of American anxieties, in words added to the dictionary since 1980
Quartz: The evolution of American anxieties, in words added to the dictionary since 1980. “When the American English dictionary Merriam-Webster adds new words, it also records the year the word was first printed. 36 more words
