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Oct 8, 2020 · Homesickness didn’t disappear, but it did fall out of medical use. And ‘nostalgia’ came to mean something quite different: a phenomenon associated with a longing for a lost time rather than an absent place.
Jul 29, 2018 · Check out this awesome line that appeared in an Iowa newspaper in 1868: “The lascivious lollygagging lumps of licentiousness who disgrace the common decencies of life by their love-sick fawnings at our public dances." Another great line from 1949 appears in the Oxford English Dictionary: "Lollygagging was grandmother's word for love-making."
Feb 25, 2016 · In 1688, Swiss physician Johannes Hofer published a report on this mysterious epidemic, naming the problem nostalgia, a mash-up of the Greek words nostos (which means a homecoming or return) and algos (which means pain), Smith writes.
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Homesickness is an ancient phenomenon, mentioned in both the Old Testament books of Exodus and Psalm 137:1 ("By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion") as well as Homer's Odyssey, whose opening scene features Athena arguing with Zeus to bring Odysseus home because he is homesick ("...longing for his ...
Apr 20, 2021 · Lollygag is originally an Americanism, and today it is generally used to mean to dawdle, move slowly or engage in idle play when something needs to be done. But it has a second meaning, less common but still found today, meaning to flirt, neck, snog, or otherwise engage in lovemaking.
Mar 6, 2021 · If "shit-eating grin" emerged as G.I. slang during World War II and first appeared in print in the bowdlerized form "shingle-eating grin" in U.S. military publications, the two examples of "shingle-eating grin" cited above from 1949 and 1950 are highly relevant.
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Sep 1, 2007 · This linguistic tangle started in 1688, when Johannes Hofer, a Swiss scholar, created the word “nostalgia,” combining the Greek word nostos, “return to the native land,” with algos, the word for pain. He used this word to describe a new disease that affected young people far from home.
