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Khyrunnisa A. is an Indian author of children's fiction, speaker, academic and columnist who also writes for adults. She created the comic book character 'Butterfingers'. [1] The character first appeared in the Indian children's magazine Tinkle. Thirteen-year-old Amar Kishen, aka Butterfingers, now features in the eponymous Butterfingers series ...
Butterfinger is a candy bar manufactured by the Ferrara Candy Company, a subsidiary of Ferrero. [ 1] It consists of a layered crisp peanut butter core covered in a "chocolatey" coating (it is not eligible to be referred to as chocolate, as it contains no cocoa butter ). [ 2][ 3] It was invented by Otto Schnering of the Curtiss Candy Company in ...
The riddle probably exploited, for misdirection, the fact that "humpty dumpty" was also eighteenth-century reduplicative slang for a short and clumsy person. [12] The riddle may depend upon the assumption that a clumsy person falling off a wall might not be irreparably damaged, whereas an egg would be.
A changeling, also historically referred to as an auf or oaf, is a human -like creature found throughout much of European folklore. A changeling was a substitute left by a supernatural being when kidnapping a human being. Sometimes the changeling was a 'stock' (a piece of wood made magically to resemble the kidnapped human), more often the ...
As an insult, it is in its meaning comparable to the English word "dickhead" when applied to a person, but due to the double meaning of the Dutch word (acorn or glans) it is considered much milder. It usually refers to a clumsy person who makes silly mistakes. emmeren: Emmeren (literally: to "bucket" around) is a verb, meaning "to nag". Most ...
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
Sammi Greene (Ashly Holloway, seasons 2–9) is Jeff and Susie's daughter, who is now an adult. Sammi was originally a boy, being only spoken of in the first episode of the series "The Pants Tent". She first appeared in the Season 2 episode "The Doll". In the closing credits, her name is sometimes spelled "Sammy" or "Sammie".
He joined the family after Bart managed to get a credit card issued to Santos L. Halper (a non-existent person whose name is a corruption of "Santa's Little Helper") and purchased him from a catalogue. Described in the catalogue as the ultimate dog, Laddie was able to perform household chores and use the toilet.