2015年7月29日 · The origin of the term best boy is unclear. There are two common theories: 1)Best boy was a title used in early sailing and whaling crews, who were often employed during shore leave to work as stage hands. 2)In early film days, different departments sometimes borrowed staff from each other.

2024年12月19日 · Well, "mostly". And I stand by my claim that it's unrelated to the use of "boy" as a derogatory term for a black man. Except tangentially -- most uses of "boy" for men tend to suggest lower social status (exception, I think: the "best boy" job in filmmaking). –

2018年11月29日 · Emphatic exclamation oh, boy is attested by 1917.) So, from times not too long after its earliest use in English, 'boy' seems to have carried the unmarked sense (male child / male relation / little brother), as well as the pejorative (urchin / rascal / knave), and even approbatory (young gentleman) associations.

2023年1月25日 · there's a good boy/girl/dog! idiom (mainly UK) used to show approval or encouragement: Tie your shoelaces, there's a good girl! Examples from the Corpus (Longman Dictionary) • I am Pa's best boy. • Randolph worked his hardest, pulling away, while Santa delivered all the presents to the good boys and girls. • He's a good boy, and he's very ...

2016年5月18日 · "To me, Mx Bond embodies the very best kind of girl a boy could ever grow up to become." Origin. 1970s: apparently from M (as in Mr, Mrs, Ms, etc.) + X1 (probably denoting an unknown or variable factor or quantity). For further reading: Mx (title) on Wikipedia. The word was first proposed in the late 1970s.

2010年8月6日 · It would be interesting if each of the leading poets would tell us what he considers his best work.--"Famed grammarian and linguist" Otto Jespersen, Progress in Language: With Special Reference to English, 1894. This is the first I've heard of such arguments despite having had many arguments over he versus they in the 1970's and 1980's. I will ...

Here in Australia there's an equivalent which is 'Darl' - short for darling, again best pronounced with a good Queensland aussie accent. In answer to your question many couples have pet names, which are normally toe curlingly cute - fluff bunny, didums etc, but the use of darling, honey etc sounds a little 1950's to my English/Australian ear.

2019年4月2日 · Best paper; Best poster; Best presentation; so we want to have an award in line with this, like: Best why-boy; Best questioner; Best inquisitive mind; The award is in a way humorous, so "why-boy / why-girl" would be adequate (if I get right that it has positive connotations), but having the word gender-dependent is not convenient.

2013年12月2日 · If a person is very social in a party, striking up conversations with different people from one end of the hall to the other end, are there some good expressions to describe this person?

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