dieku
n.— «Stickers near 6th ave. below waverly. small print: “nick beef………..A DieKu………..nyc.”» —“sixth avenue, manhattan” by Joe Holmes Flickr Dec. 7, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
dieku
n.— «Stickers near 6th ave. below waverly. small print: “nick beef………..A DieKu………..nyc.”» —“sixth avenue, manhattan” by Joe Holmes Flickr Dec. 7, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
U.S. President Thomas Jefferson has been credited with the first use of belittled in print. The word appears in his 1785 Notes on the State of Virginia. This is part of a complete episode.
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If someone urges you to spill the tea, they probably don’t want you tipping over a hot beverage. Originally, the tea here was the letter T, as in “truth.” To spill the T means to “pass along truthful information.” Plus...
There are pictures of diekus on Flickr.
DieKu – (plural-DieKus) n. the arrangement of photographs of actual grave markers in such a manner that the names on the stones take the form of a traditional haiku (a verse form that relies on brevity and simplicity to convey its message) consisting of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables (respectively) and frequently includes natural images or themes based on a Zen Buddhist philosophy of simplicity and the idea of perfection that excludes the extraneous, created by the non-performing New Yor City Performace Artist known as Nick Beef.