A lovely word, with a whole string of lovely synonyms: hogwash, bunk, balderdash, malarkey, and codswallop.
The term actually originated from America in the mid-19th century and was derived from the Dutch word poppekak, which means “doll’s excrement”.
It is also the name of a premium brand of gourmet candied popcorn sold in North America (often featuring almonds and pecans).
The prefix omni means “all”.
God the Father is usually associated with omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, so this can be paraphrased by saying that God is “all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere present.”
The product was trademarked by the chemical company DuPont in 1938. They went through an extensive process to generate names for its new product.
A persistent urban legend exists that the name is derived from an amalgamation of the cities of "New York" and "London"; however, that's simply isn't true. No organisation in London was ever involved in the research and production of nylon.
I love this particular word. Being a slang term, it has had so many spellings that it’s kind of difficult to keep track. in 1851, the word was included in Henry Mayhew’s book London Labour and the London Poor as monekeer. It was recorded in the Sydney Slang Dictionary in Australia in 1881 as monniker, and there is strong evidence of its use in the States not long after.
The implication is that it was a London term, which spread around the globe as people migrated. One proposal as to its evolution is that the word started out as the Middle English word ekename (an ancient term which later evolved into the word nickname) and that was converted into moniker by backslang.
Old Testament references to a huge sea monster called Leviathan are thought to have been inspired by ancient myth. Leviathan appears in the Book of Isaiah and Book of Psalms as a sea serpent that is killed by God and then given as food to creatures in the wilderness, and it is also mentioned in the Book of Job.
Since the 1300s, the word began to be used (both capitalised and capitalised) for enormous sea creatures both imagined and real—and it was used as a synonym for the whale countless times in Herman Melville’s classic Moby-Dick, as in “ere the Pequod’s weedy hull rolls side by side with the barnacled hulls of the leviathan.”
Today, the word can be used for anything large and powerful, from ships to corporations.
Kindness in a Christian context is not just a feeling but is a way of living. It is closely related to the virtue of compassion.
The word comes from an early translation in English of the name Jagannath. During the mid-19th century, some European travellers were observing the Hindu festival of Ratha Yatra in Puri, India. During this a procession of massive wooden chariots (called temple cars) carrying a statue of the deity were pulled through the streets. These chariots were incredibly heavy and nearly impossible to steer or stop quickly once in motion, Reports emerged that people deliberately allowed themselves to be crushed beneath the vehicle's wheels as a sacrifice. It's now thought these reports were an exaggeration or misinterpretation of actual events, but the false reports spread throughout Europe and America.
In the latter half of the 20th Century the term juggernaut was frequently used in the United Kingdom to describe any large heavy truck or articulated lorry (thought to be just as unstoppable)
The term is more commonly used nowadays for any form of powerful force or movement, thought by many to be unstoppable.
Finally, Marvel Comics fans will remember the Juggernaut (Cain Marko), a character created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby to fight the X-Men. He possessed superhuman strength and durability, and was virtually immune to most physical attacks; his helmet also protected him from mental attacks.
It's a concept used in science fiction that enables faster-than-light (FTL) interstellar travel. Ships by-pass the speed of light (a universal constant) by travelling through an alternate, higher dimension where the distances are vastly shorter.
In Star Trek they use a different method of FTL travel. Starships form a subspace bubble that envelops the vessel, distorting the local spacetime continuum and moving the ship through their own warp bubble
Yeah, both methods are convenient plot devices used in science fiction. Otherwise, most stories would involve years spent travelling between star systems. :)
Charles Dickens referred to such a location in 'Bleak House' (1853). In the novel, his character John Jarndyce famously retires to his "growlery" whenever he is in a bad mood or needs to escape the chaos of the household. I think we've all been there ...
It's quite an old term, as we tend to refer to such a room as a den, a shed or perhaps even the home office—a small, personal sanctuary reserved strictly for a bit of peace and quiet.
