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- Dictionarycracker/ˈkrakə/
noun
- 1. a person or thing that cracks.
- 2. a decorated paper cylinder which, when pulled apart, makes a sharp noise and releases a small toy or other novelty: "a Christmas cracker"
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May 24, 2013 · In Elizabethian English, the word cracker meant braggert. Shakespeare's King John (1595) includes the statement: "What cracker is this . . . that deafes our ears / With this abundance of superfluous breath?" By 1760 the English, both in Colonial America and in Great Britain were using the word cracker to describe the Scot-Irish settlers in the ...
Jul 22, 2012 · So the female forename Polly comes from the female forename Poll (also Pall), and was originally a rhyming variant of Moll, which is a diminutive of Mary. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) named his parrot Poll and taught him to speak, and in a much later 1894 children's version the parrot said "Polly wants a cracker, cracker."
Mar 22, 2019 · 'cracker' or 'crackers' in the context of eating 'flat dry bread snacks' would have no perceived connection and wouldn't even register as a pun. 'Hacker' though it has its own multiple overloaded senses, is probably the word you want to use anyway. One of the primary senses of 'hacking' is 'breaking into a system'.
The oldest "Holy * on a cracker" from Google Groups is "Holy hell on a cracker!" from Oct 12 2000 in alt.roundtable. The related "Jesus Christ on a cracker" can be found in 1993's Save me, Joe Louis by Madison Smartt Bell: "Jesus Christ on a cracker," Macrae said. "You about killed me there."
Oct 3, 2015 · J.E. Lighter, The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1994) notes that expression also appears in the closely related forms "blow this pop stand" and "blow this popcorn stand."
Besides the singular/plural difference there's always some confusion as to attributive forms, e.g., parent meeting vs. parents meeting or parent's meeting vs. parents' meeting.
Such a line would be arbitrary, like looking for units of rice in a processed flat rice cracker. It's an amount measured in units of mass — 67kb of data in a jpg, 2 grams of rice in a rice cracker. Even seemingly trivial cases aren't so trivial.
Aug 20, 2011 · Which is the correct usage: "rack my brain" or "wrack my brain"? Google turned up pages with conflicting recommendations. One argument is that to "rack a brain" comes ...
5. To me, "highlighted" says that something has been accentuated so that it stands out from a background or the crowd rather than having been ignited so that it sheds light on everything else around it. There is a distinct difference in meaning. And since "highlighted" has been verbed from the noun "highlight" by present-day users, it is ...
Jun 6, 2014 · 9 Answers. Sorted by: 8. constituent (n) one of the parts that form something. It is used as an adjective also: serving to form, compose, or make up a unit or whole : component < constituent parts >. Its synonyms component and integral can be used also depending on the context. Note: Integral is a bit tricky though.
