I need a word for writing class plus what it means. thanks?

Answer 1

My favorite word is cantankerous. It means to be disagreeable, argumentative.

Answer 2

Quiz. The definition is "What is it?" An English professor bet two other professors that he could write a word on a sidewalk and it would be in a dictionary within ten years. It made it in eight.

Answer 3

How about "penultimate?" It means "next to the last." Example: Tomorrow is the penultimate day of class."

Answer 4

fart -

Fart is an English word which literally refers to flatulence. The word is generally considered mildly offensive and unsuitable in a formal environment by modern English speakers, though conservative locales may consider it vulgar. "Fart" is both verb or noun.

While it primarily denotes flatulence, it has other meanings: the phrase "to fart around" refers to goofing off or wasting time; an "old fart" is a somewhat derogatory term for a old-fashioned or advanced aged person.


Etymology
The word fart (in English) dates back to the Old English word feortan of Germanic and Proto-Indo-European origin: Greek περδομαι, Avestic prd, Russian пердь. [citation needed] It is widely speculated that the word is onomatopoeic in origin (as are many words for flatulence in other languages). [citation needed] Similar word in other languages include Furz in modern dialects of German, fjärt in Swedish, and fjert in Norwegian.


Early usage
A well known usage of the fart in Middle English occurs in Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" (one of the Canterbury Tales). In the tale (which is told by a bawdy miller as a group of pilgrims travel to Canterbury), the character Nicholas hangs his buttocks out of a window and flatulates in the face of his rival Absolom, who is instead expecting a kiss. Absolom is humiliated by this gesture. Nicholas then attempts to repeat the prank, and Absolom then sears Nicholas's rear with a red-hot poker.




This Alison answered; "Who is there
That knocketh so? I warrant him a thief."
"Nay, nay," quoth he, "God wot, my sweete lefe,
I am thine Absolon, my own darling.
Of gold," quoth he, "I have thee brought a ring,
My mother gave it me, so God me save!
Full fine it is, and thereto well y-grave:
This will I give to thee, if thou me kiss."
Now Nicholas was risen up to piss,
And thought he would amenden all the jape;
He shoulde kiss his erse ere that he scape:
And up the window did he hastily,
And out his erse he put full privily
Over the buttock, to the haunche bone.
And therewith spake this clerk, this Absolon,
"Speak, sweete bird, I know not where thou art."
This Nicholas anon let fly a fart,
As great as it had been a thunder dent;
That with the stroke he was well nigh y-blent;
But he was ready with his iron hot,
And Nicholas amid the erse he smote.
Off went the skin an handbreadth all about.
The hote culter burned so his toutv,
That for the smart he weened he would die;
As he were wood, for woe he gan to cry,



Later usage
"To break wind behind." (Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784).

As when we a gun discharge,
Although the bore be ne'er so large,
Before the flame from muzzle burst,
Just at the breech it flashes first;
So from my lord his passion broke,
He farted first, and then he spoke."
- Swift.

The word "raspberry" is used euphemistically, it comes from the Cockney rhyming slang "raspberry tart". In 1990, Carl Japikse released a compilation of letters in a book entitled Fart Proudly, Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read In School (Enthea Press). As the title suggests, Franklin himself had actually written 'fart' in several of his correspondences.


Modern usage
By the early twentieth century, the word fart had come to be considered rather vulgar in most English-speaking cultures. For a long time, the word was forbidden from the public airwaves in the United States. [citation needed] While not one of George Carlin's original seven dirty words, he noted in a later routine that the word fart (along with turd and ****), ought to be added to "the list" of words that were not acceptable (for broadcast) in any context (as opposed to words such as *** or cock which have non-offensive meanings).

With the rise of cable television and changing social mores in general, the word fart is (in 2006) frequently heard in the broadcast media. It is also now found in such places as children's literature, such as the Walter the Farting Dog series of children's books. While still considered impolite in some social contexts, much of the stigma which surrounded the word has disappeared. Howard Stern is a known supporter and longtime champion of the fart. In fact, Stern has featured fart-related humor in many of his routines, and even created a character called Fartman.