Yvonne from Rock Hill, South Carolina, learned the phrase honor bright as a way of assuring that one was telling the truth, much like cross my heart or I swear to God. It’s common in the UK, and Shakespeare used honour bright in Troilus and Cressida...
purity siege n.— «Next time you see that group of fundamentalist Christians proselytizing outside the gay bars on the Cedar Springs strip, be sure to ask them about James Stabile.…The segment focused on a group affiliated with Heartland World...
nines
n.— «Electromet silicon of less than three-nines purity, the purest available at the time, provided at a cost of $16 per pound.» —by American Society for Metals Ultra-High-Purity Metals , 1962. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
nine n. in a percentage between 99 and 100, a place on either side of the decimal point given a value of nine and counted in serial to indicate a number very near 100 percent, such as in measurements of reliability, accuracy, purity, etc. Editorial...
saffron demography n.— «Although we now know that there is no such thing as race, nevertheless racial purity, numbers and culture are yoked together in all fundamentalist discourses. As Patricia and Roger Jeffery have noted, what has come to be...
po-po n.— «If your son has a little problems with common sense and self-control, then he isn’t exactly Mr. Right for MDMA. Or if he can’t hide his use from the po-po (police, if you didn’t know) or law.» —“Re: Mixing ecstasy with antipsychotics” by...
