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Bookmark or Share- shakespeare - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeA transferred epithet often involves shifting a modifier from the animate to the inanimate, as in the phrases "cheerful money," "sleepless night," and "suicidal sky." Given the close connection of slut and sluttish with specifically human (and more specifically female) hygiene, I think it is fair to say that "sluttish time" qualifies as a ...
- epithet requests - One word for a person who pretends to be nice to ...How about 'Janus-faced'? Janus-faced - marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray.
- literature - An Epithet of the River Styx - English Language & Usage ...It's about an epithet that was, I think, made popular only by the book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan. In the series, the River Styx has been described and portrayed as the " River of Lost Dreams and Hopes." This, it would seem, has been picked up and applied by some people on the Net.
- Speaking of insults: "sod off!" meaning and originSo your sense of "sod" is on the money. Suffixial "off" marks a general epithet as an insult, as seen in "piss off," "f-ck off," "bugger off," etc., all used in the manner of "please go away." Also note that "sod" in this sense is UK usage only. In US English it only refers to topsoil and turf grass.
- how did the epithet "nigger" come into usage?My research has resulted in theoretical reasons for the usage of the term "nigger", and I have failed to uncover any evidence as to how this nasty little epithet evolved into the usage and connotation it had and has to this day. When the African slave-trade was in full-swing , my belief is that a good percentage of black slaves were captured ...
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