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A racist postcard by Fred C. Lounsbury, promoting the idea of the Yellow Peril (1907) Chink is an English-language ethnic slur usually referring to a person of Chinese descent, but also used to insult people of East Asian, North Asian, Southeast Asian appearance. The use of the term describing eyes with epicanthic fold ("Asiatic eyes") is considered extremely offensive and is regarded as ...
Gluttony ( Latin: gula, derived from the Latin gluttire meaning "to gulp down or swallow") means over-indulgence and over-consumption of food or drink . In Christianity, it is considered a sin if the excessive desire for food leads to a lack of control over one's relation with food or harms the body. [ 1] Some Christian denominations consider ...
Eating crow. Eating crow is a colloquial idiom, [ 1] used in some English-speaking countries, that means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position. [ 2] The crow is a carrion -eater that is presumably repulsive to eat in the same way that being proven wrong might be emotionally hard to swallow. [ 2]
The term comes from the Ecclesiastical Latin phrase gratiarum actio, "act of thanks." Theologically, the act of saying grace is derived from the Bible, in which Jesus and Saint Paul pray before meals (cf. Luke 24:30, Acts 27:35). [2] The practice reflects the belief that humans should thank God who is believed to be the origin of everything. [2]
A page from Elia Levita 's Yiddish - Hebrew - Latin - German dictionary (16th century) including the word goy (גוי), translated to Latin as ethnicus, meaning heathen or pagan. [ 1] In modern Hebrew and Yiddish, goy ( / ɡɔɪ /; גוי , pl.: goyim / ˈɡɔɪ.ɪm /, גוים or גויים ) is a term for a gentile, a non- Jew. [ 2]
The Gathering of the Manna by James Tissot. Manna (Hebrew: מָן, romanized: mān, Greek: μάννα; Arabic: اَلْمَنُّ; sometimes or archaically spelled mana), according to the Bible and the Quran, is an edible substance which God provided for the Israelites during their travels in the desert during the 40-year period following the Exodus and prior to the conquest of Canaan.
In the English language, nigger is a racial slur directed at black people. Starting in the 1990s, references to nigger have been increasingly replaced by the euphemism "the N-Word", notably in cases where nigger is mentioned but not directly used. In an instance of linguistic reappropriation, the term nigger is also used casually and fraternally among African Americans, most commonly in the ...
"He who doesn't work, doesn't eat" – Soviet poster issued in Uzbekistan, 1920. He who does not work, neither shall he eat is an aphorism from the New Testament traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle, later cited by John Smith in the early 1600s colony of Jamestown, Virginia, and broadly by the international socialist movement, from the United States [1] to the communist revolutionary ...