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The sjambok (/ ˈ ʃ æ m b ʌ k,-b ɒ k /) [1] or litupa is a heavy leather whip.It is traditionally made from an adult hippopotamus or rhinoceros hide, but is also commonly made out of plastic.
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Camel toe, or cameltoe, is slang for the outline of the labia majora (the outer lips of the vulva) in tightly fitting clothes. [1] [2] [3] Owing to a combination of anatomical factors and the fabric tension in the crotch area, the outer labia and mons pubis may, together, display a shape resembling the forefoot of a camel.
The term vanity originates from the Latin word vanitas meaning emptiness, untruthfulness, futility, foolishness, and empty pride. [49] Here empty pride means a fake pride, in the sense of vainglory, unjustified by one's own achievements and actions, but sought by pretense and appeals to superficial characteristics.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
The word Hindu is an exonym. [90] [91] This word Hindu is derived from the Indo-Aryan [92] and Sanskrit [92] [74] word Sindhu, which means "a large body of water", covering "river, ocean". [93] [d] It was used as the name of the Indus River and also referred to its tributaries.
The house hippo pushing a piece of paper. The spot shows footage and describes the behaviour of the "North American house hippo", a fictional animal found "throughout Canada, and the eastern United States". [3] The animal is described as sleeping for 16 hours per day, and enjoying a diet of raisins, chips and "crumbs from peanut butter on toast ...
An exploded-view drawing is a technical drawing of an object that shows the relationship or order of assembly of the various parts. [13] It shows the components of an object slightly separated by distance or suspended in surrounding space in the case of a three-dimensional exploded diagram.