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Origin: Hands down is an idiom born from the world of horse racing. Think about it. You are so far ahead of the chasing pack that you, as the jockey, can sit back, relax, and still win the race even without your hands on the reins.
Bunny. Pet name for a rabbit since the early 1600s. Bunny is the diminutive of ‘bun’, an earlier dialectical word of unknown origin, now archaic, that meant ‘rabbit’. Since the mid-20th century, ‘bunny’ is also slang for an inexperienced or poor sports person.
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The word ‘Bunny’ originated from the Old English word ‘bunȝe,’ which referred to a small rabbit or hare. In early usage, ‘Bunny’ was primarily used to describe young rabbits. However, as time passed, the term ‘Bunny’ gained a broader meaning.
Wherever the bun came from, bunny first showed up as an affectionate term for women and children in 1609, and the first citation of its use as a pet name for a rabbit came in 1699’s A New...
Rabbit arose 14c. to mean the young of the species, but gradually pushed out the older word 19c., after British slang picked up coney as a punning synonym for cunny "cunt" (compare connyfogle "to deceive (a woman) in order to win sexual favors").
12 Νοε 2021 · 1. By the Same Token. Bus token? Game token? What kind of token is involved here? Token is a very old word, referring to something that’s a symbol or sign of something else. It could be a pat on...
