Stacker has researched 50 old-timey slang words and discovered what they mean. From the 1950s to the 1990s, there have been dozens of slang terms that have come and gone.

Other languages have words that mean false, tacky, or trying too hard, but only the English slang term “cheesy” can fully express something so fake that it stinks like Camembert: “He came up ...

An ironic slip by Premier Legault The Quebec Premier lamented how today's youth find it 'cool' to use English words. 2 critically injured in multi-vehicle collision on Highway 401 in Mississauga ...

Think twice before you use words like “lackaday” or “nonplussed”—they may mean something quite different than what you’d assume.

We don’t know the origins of ‘boy’ or ‘girl’. Royal MS 10 E IV f.311v / The British Library 3. Girl. Since the 14th century, gyrle was a word used to indicate a child, with no gender ...

Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of ...

Here are seven common English terms to describe chillier temperatures. learn. learning resources. Listening. Worksheets. English exercises. ... 7 words to describe the cold, from cool to bone ...

Popular words used in Black culture for centuries are making their way into Oxford’s newest dictionary. Henry Louis Gates Jr., historian and director of the Hutchins Center for African and ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable. By Gina Cherelus Need a word to emphasize ...