Re: define words


Mike wrote:

> Colin Ferguson (late night US tv ) used it in an episode of 'a cup of
tea &
> talk' when setting down a silver tea tray saying "Our sponsor is
where I get
> my bling-bling". So it means anything shiny and new or does it
include
> money also possibly.

It's ostentatious jewelry worn to show off, originally by rappers.
Unbandictionary.com isn't bad for slang.

> So haute couturier is a fashion designer?

There's French, boy bach.

> What is the etymology of the original terms?

Etymology for slang can be hard work.

> Applet is computerese?

A clientside Java program like this one:

http://www.thorsen.priv.no/services/mandelbrot/

Google "applet definition".

> Is givenchy a created trademark?

That it is. Google "givenchy".

> Speaking of French terms, I once saw a jesting political cartoon show
a map
> of the middle east. And instead of there being the word Iraq, they
> substituted the term 'George's Vichy Arabia' or somesuch. Vichy I
see From
> Merriam's is a commune in central France; from which derives some
excellent
> soup, btw. I am not sure whether a French commune means the same as
a
> Bolshevik commune. Any one care to explain the meaning of the
cartoon?

Vichy was the ostensibly free part of France during the German
occupation under Petain, collaborating like nobody's business.

--
Adrian Smith

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