A Brief History of the Word “Goombah”
Kristen Martin
Apr 1 2021
FEATURES: From the Napulitano (Neapolitan) word cumpareAlternate spellings: gumbah, cumpà, goombaOriginal meaning: “godfather”New York City mayor Bill de Blasio: not a ...
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Word: Kismet
Hilal Isler
Oct 1 2020
FEATUREs: Originally from the Turkish and Arabic Title of an 1877 novel by George Fleming (a.k.a. Julia Constance Fletcher)Name of a 1990s robot built by Dr. Cynthia ...
Word: Jugaad
Mallika Rao
Dec 2 2019
FEATUREs: Originally from Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, and Urdu Definition in the Oxford English Dictionary: “a flexible approach to problem-solving that uses ...
