accent - Is the pronunciation of 'th' as in think 'f' specific to a ...
5 I'm asking this because I heard two people say fink* instead of think & bof* instead of both: a non native university teacher of English and a native speaker of English. If it's not a speech …
What is the word meaning "going on and on for miles and miles"?
Mar 22, 2014 · @BrianJ.Fink "Extending as it went" is non-idiomatic and semantically ambiguous. The most likely interpretation of that phrase would be that the road actually becomes longer as …
What ever happened to "fink"? - English Language & Usage Stack …
Sep 8, 2018 · The term "fink" sounds twee and almost charming in comparison, a suitable utterance for a child but much less so for an adult. In fact, Batfink was a popular children's …
What is a word for an officious person who tells the ending of …
In practice, more likely epithets would be blabbermouth, bigmouth, blabber, blabberer, chatterbox, loudmouth, motormouth, squealer, telltale, tattletale. My personal choice would be ratfink - rat …
What's the word for telling on someone, or inform against them?
A person telling on someone may be called a rat, mole, fink, stoolpigeon, tattle-tale, or narc, with each subject to being rendered a verb: ratted, narced, etc.
Do people who metathesize "ask" do it to other words as well?
It is much easier/ require less skill and effort with the tongue to say 'fink' than 'think'. Those whose parents allow them to get away with it as kids often end up saying 'fink', 'finking' etc. as adults.
Is there a word for some kind of incorrect empathy? [closed]
From the book "Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners" By Bruce Fink: Connivance is the act of conniving or conspiring, especially with …
"Poison" is to "poisoned" as "venom" is to what?
Feb 6, 2012 · If we're doing Substance Noun:Past-Tense Verb for Afflicting With, then Mr Fink's answer is 95% right: Poison:Poisoned::Venom: [Buncha Stuff] You can say Bob poisoned …
epithet requests - Is there a word for a person who gives out too …
I'm looking for a single-word term that describes a personality that wants to give out too many unnecessary details in a conversation. [EDIT] Let me give you guys an example. Suppose you …
meaning - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Such an expression might be a double entendre. Wikipedia defines this as a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Typically one of the …