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  • 41Bumpkin — Bump kin, n. [The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave defines thus: Bumkin, Fr. chicambault, the luffe block, a long and thick piece of wood, whereunto the fore sayle and sprit sayle are fastened, when a ship goes by the winde. Hence, a clumsy… …

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  • 42Swaffham Pedlar —    When the parish church of Swaffham (Norfolk) was rebuilt in the 1460s, one benefactor contributing to the costs was its churchwarden, a rich local merchant called John Chapman. His family pew showed carvings of a pedlar with his pack, and a… …

    A Dictionary of English folklore

  • 43compatriot — compatriotic /keuhm pay tree ot ik/ or, esp. Brit., / pa /, adj. compatriotism, n. /keuhm pay tree euht/ or, esp. Brit., / pa /, n. 1. a native or inhabitant of one s own country; fellow countryman or countrywoman. adj. 2. of the same country.… …

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  • 44karl — North Country (Newcastle) Words a country fellow, a gruff old man, a churl …

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  • 45clown — [16] Clown’s antecedents are obscure. Its earliest recorded sense is ‘unsophisticated or boorish country fellow’, which has led to speculation that it may come ultimately from Latin colonus ‘colonist, farmer’ (residence in the country often being …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 46Bogardus social distance scale — A scaling technique for measuring social distance, pioneered by Emory S. Bogardus in the 1930s, usually applied to the study of ethnic relations, social classes, and social values generally. The scale attempts to measure respondents degree of… …

    Dictionary of sociology

  • 47clown — [16] Clown’s antecedents are obscure. Its earliest recorded sense is ‘unsophisticated or boorish country fellow’, which has led to speculation that it may come ultimately from Latin colonus ‘colonist, farmer’ (residence in the country often being …

    Word origins

  • 48Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland — Walter Steward (1293 [ Anderson, William, The Scottish Nation , Edinburgh, 1867, vol.ix, p.513, states he was 21 years of age at Bannockburn.] ndash; 9 April 1326 at Bathgate Castle) Anderson (1867) vol.ix, p.513] was the 6th hereditary High… …

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  • 49Horacio Elizondo — Horacio Marcelo Elizondo (born November 4 ,1963, in Quilmes) is a former Argentine international football referee best known for his officiation throughout the 2006 World Cup. Having achieved all his goals in refereeing [… …

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  • 50Gábor Fodor — Gábor Béla Fodor was a chemist and medical research scientist, born in Hungary, December 5 1915 died in San Diego, California. November 3 2000. Magna Cum Laude Ph. D. Sc. dedicated his life to the search of antidotes, painkillers and derivatives… …

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