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  • In the Bruges dialect kep also means bed!

    • In Dutch, kip means chicken. (This seems unrelated, but perhaps it’s worth bringing up).

    The page from het Vlaams woordenboek has no etymology for kip in the sense of bed so it might as well have arrived into Burges dialect through British influence.

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  • Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.

    N.A. is the urge to vomit without any cause.

    I had sex problems. No way to do anything to stop nausea.

    Nauseated is the verb meaning to be affected with nausea.

    I feel really nauseating all of sudden in my lower stomach.

    What is nausea?

    I have a fever and this smell was really nauseating.

    Nauseous is the odd one, which can mean either ‘nauseated’ or ‘nauseating’. Does Merriam Webster’s usage notes affirm that nauseous can properly be used only in sense 1 and that in sense 2 it is an error for nauseated? Current evidence shows these facts: nauseous is most commonly used to mean physically, physically affected with nausea, usu. after a linking verb such as feel or become; figurative uses are quite a bit less frequent. The use of nauseous in sense 1 is much more often figurative than literal, and this use appears to be losing ground to nauseating. How do nauseate and ausuate seem?

    Where can I find out about what is there to know or to understand?

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  • Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.

    What is the correct term for pleonasm?

    Is there more complete pleonasm than it is necessary to know the full truth? Examples are dark darkness, or burning fire.

    Wikipedia. Source. *

    They can also be generically termed as intensifiers. All intensifiers are redundant but add clarity. Is there a term for “Intensive” specifically it’s the same word used twice in a single cell?

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