WUBA
n.— «The school has tried to abolish use of terms that are derogatory toward women, such as WUBA, an acronym for women with unusually big …well, let’s just substitute the French derrierre for that last letter.» —“Mids are not crazy, it’s just their lingo” by Earl Kelly in U.S. Naval Academy The Capital (Annapolis, Md.) May 22, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
In her book, Canadian English: A Linguistic Reader, University of Toronto professor Elaine Gold writes extensively about the common Canadian discourse tag eh? This word can serve as a confirmation marker, much like the discourse tag right? The word...
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