Dec 31, 2013 · Wikipedia suggests that kip is derived from kipper a smoked herring fish. The English philologist and ethnographer Walter William Skeat derives the word from the Old English kippian, to …

Apr 17, 2014 · Kip and nap are the same. Kip is more like the informal version of nap in BrE. Snooze also means nap and is the informal version of nap in both AmE and BrE. When it comes to their …

Kip-sio, on the other hand, probably contains a completely unrelated kip (possibly 箕 jī ‘winnowing basket’, though I don't know if that originally ended in a -p).

Jan 29, 2014 · While nap, snooze and doze mean sleep; nap and snooze are intentional while doze isn't. Snooze differs from nap; the former continues from previous sleep. You were sleeping and then …

Feb 25, 2021 · A UK artist, Liam Gallagher, usually uses this phrase, but I can't understand what it really means. Example taken from Twitter: That’s wiped me out of for a kip as you were LG x Please could …

Dec 10, 2010 · Gotcha actually has several meanings. All of them can be derived from the phrase of which this is a phonetic spelling, namely " [I have] got you". Literally, from the sense of got = "caught, …

William Kitchiner M.D. (1775–1827) was an optician, inventor of telescopes, amateur musician and exceptional cook. His name was a household word during the 19th century, and his Cook’s Oracle …

Jun 9, 2017 · If you take a deep breath, close your lips gently, and then exhale, the air forces itself past your lips and makes them flap together like a horse. Is there a commonly used word or idiom for this?

Feb 10, 2026 · I'm trying to find a word or phrase for the feeling of holding onto anger or sadness because it seems the proper thing to do. Examples may include having a friend who was wronged, …

Apr 16, 2011 · Shooted is an obsolete, nonstandard simple past tense and past participle of shoot. (source) You should not use this form. Shot is proper. It's still used sometimes, but it's really …