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Coprolalia. Coprolalia ( / ˌkɒprəˈleɪliə / KOP-rə-LAY-lee-ə) is involuntary swearing or the involuntary utterance of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks. The word comes from the Greek κόπρος ( kópros ), meaning "dung, feces ", and λαλιά ( laliā́) "speech", from λαλεῖν ( laleîn) "to talk". [1]
Frenetic random activity periods ( FRAPs ), also colloquially known as zoomies, scrumbling, or midnight crazies, [1] are random bursts of energy occurring in dogs and cats in which they run frenetically, commonly in circles. They usually last a few minutes or less. [2] [3] [4] It is not known what causes animals to engage in FRAPs.
Flip. Flip is a keyword action that deals with specially printed cards known as "flip cards". Each of these cards has two sets of normal card attributes (e.g. name, rules text, power and toughness): one right-side-up above the card's image and one upside-down (with no mana cost) below the image.
Alternating caps, [1] also known as studly caps [a] or sticky caps (where "caps" is short for capital letters ), is a form of text notation in which the capitalization of letters varies by some pattern, or arbitrarily (often also omitting spaces between words and occasionally some letters), such as "aLtErNaTiNg CaPs, "sTuDlY cApS" or "sTiCkY cApS".
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
Semantic memory refers to general world knowledge that humans have accumulated throughout their lives. [1] This general knowledge ( word meanings, concepts, facts, and ideas) is intertwined in experience and dependent on culture. New concepts are learned by applying knowledge learned from things in the past. [2]
Random act of kindness. A random act of kindness is a nonpremeditated, inconsistent action designed to offer kindness towards the outside world. [1] The phrase " random kindness and senseless acts of beauty " was written by Anne Herbert on a placemat in Sausalito, California in 1982. It was based on the phrase "random acts of violence and ...
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).