🤑 Money Mouth Face emoji
Ka-ching! This emoji is all about the green: a typical round emoji face with dollar signs for eyes and a green bank note for a tongue. Social-media posts using the money mouth face emoji are…
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What It Really Means To Call A Woman Hysterical
by Kory Stamper published September 25th, 2018 Is hysterical a gendered insult? It began, unsurprisingly, on cable TV. In 2017, the Senate intelligence committee called Attorney General Jeff Sessions to testify about his Russian contacts as well as conversations about those contacts with Donald Trump prior to the 2016 general election. The hearings were widely discussed, as were all things having to do with Russia, but they …
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🍎 Red Apple emoji
Ahh, the classic red apple, with a solitary green leaf and perky stem. This crisp piece of fruit can represent anything related to food (especially healthy eating), school days and education, or the fall season.… -
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It Will Be Coup De Foudre Once You Start This Word Of The Day Quiz!
No legerdemain here … this Word of the Day Quiz is straightforward, wordy fun. If the quiz doesn’t display, please try opening in the Chrome browser. Interested in Words of the Day from the past? Check out this one that we brought to life … Tell us your favorite word from this week below (and share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter)!
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🏩 Love Hotel emoji
Oh, boy. This emoji has two distinctly different ideas behind it. The love hotel or heart hospital emoji depicts a building with both a pink heart and on some platforms the letter H emblazoned on the front.… -
💌 Love Letter emoji
The love letter emoji is one of many that use a traditional heart to convey the idea of love. On all platforms, the emoji is depicted with a simple envelope line drawing, the flap sealed… -
🎓 Graduation Cap emoji
The graduation cap emoji is an image of a square, black board affixed to a skull cap with a tassel attached at the center, hanging to one side. It's typically worn by those graduating from… -
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Tatterdemalion, And Other Trending Words On Dictionary.com
A sequel to a treasured children’s film and a celebration of the nation’s laws both landed on the Dictionary.com trending words list for September 14–21, 2018. Here’s what else had you wondering about words. Prevarication Searches for prevarication climbed 1,209% this week on the heels of its use in a tweet by George Conway, Washington D.C. lawyer and husband of White House staffer Kellyanne Conway. Prevarication …
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Slam Poetry Is Helping People Work Through Their Pain
by Taneesh Khera In this column, we travel the US exploring the minority languages, dialects, and people who call it home. Then, we step back to see what effects they might have on society at large. Today, the spotlight is on slam poetry. What is slam poetry? I figured I’d go to the Starry Plough in Berkeley, California to find out. Started in 1999, they …
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gringo
While not always the case, gringo is frequently an insult. If you're white and use Cinco de Mayo as an excuse to drink too many margaritas at your local, inauthentic Tex-Mex restaurant, all while wearing… -
🍋 Lemon emoji
This pretty yellow citrus fruit is represented here in its simplest form, a tilted, yellow oval with a green leaf or two attached to the stem. It has several meanings, referring both to the fruit…