meaning - Are "adult" and "adulterate" cognates? - English …
网页The word adult appear to have derived from the Latin term adultus, meaning grown up, mature, adult, ripe. Adulterate (and its cognate adultery) is reported to derive from the Latin adulterare - to falsify, corrupt. Are the meanings and derivation of adult and adulterate, directly related, or is this just a coincidence of spelling?
possessives - adults’ English teacher or adult’s English teacher ...
网页2019年9月6日 · Use a noun adjunct. "I am an adult English teacher." It still has ambiguity, namely whether you are an adult who teaches English or whether you teach English to adults, but my top Google search results turn up job ads for the latter. That collocation avoids the possessive entirely. Verb the noun.
Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as children
网页2014年12月19日 · "adult children" is sometimes used in contexts where age is important, such as a form requiring someone to list all children under 18 and all adult children living with them. And someone might use it to emphasise that their children have left home or aren't dependent on them. But you wouldn't introduce someone as "my adult child/ren". –
Specific word for "grown-up children"? [duplicate]
网页2014年3月5日 · 1. There is no word. I use kids when speaking to adults about my grown children, because it has less the connotation of youth (I think), but I have run into that problem myself. I sometimes feel the need to say, my children, now adults... or my married children when I want to avoid kids. – anongoodnurse.
expressions - If an adult gets kidnapped, would it still be …
网页What's the other terms if adults get kidnap? "Kidnapping" is the name of the crime so you will look to the applicable penal code:
abbreviations - What do CI, CIM, CID, CIB mean? - English …
网页3. From the context it appears to mean “cum in,” and your friend is suggesting that the girl engages in a variety of sexual acts. “She can pretty much [take it in] anything,” with CIM meaning “in mouth” (oral sex) and CIB “in butt” (anal sex). CID might mean “in deep” (without a condom), or it could be the similar-sounding ...
Trying to understand the nuances between ox, steer and bullock
网页2018年12月6日 · An ox (plural oxen), also known as a bullock in Australia and India, is a bovine trained as a draft animal or riding animal. Oxen are commonly castrated adult male cattle; castration makes the animals more docile.[citation needed] Cows (adult females) or bulls (intact males) may also be used in some areas. Wikipedia article on ox
Was "man" a gender-neutral word in common usage at some point?
网页2020年1月14日 · Specific sense of "adult male of the human race" (distinguished from a woman or boy) is by late Old English (c. 1000); implying that "man" was used in a purely non-gendered way before then. Indeed, OED's quotations for the definition of "a human being as a designation applied equally to particular individuals of either sex" are earlier …
etymology - What is the origin of the term ‘blue movie’? - English ...
网页2023年4月10日 · My final chance is The Pocket Dictionary of American Slang (Wentworth and Flexner, Pocket Books, New York, March 1968 printing), which does provide some help: blue. adj. 1. Lewd, lascivious, obscene, erotic. Colloq. by c1900; perhaps because the color of blue is associated with burning brimstone. 2.
nouns - Is there a term for an adult without children, similar to ...
网页2019年10月9日 · For a child without any parents, there is a term - orphan. Is there such a term for the opposite - an adult without any children? This question actually comes out of a software development situation where I have nodes that relate to each other as parents and children - a parent node has zero or more children.