Bright
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Old English bryht. by metathesis from beorht "bright; splendid; clear-sounding; beautiful; divine," from Proto-Germanic *berhta - "bright" (cf. Old Saxon berht. Old Norse bjartr. Old High German beraht. Gothic bairhts "bright"), from PIE root *bhereg - "to gleam, white" (cf. Sanskrit bhrajate "shines, glitters," Lithuanian breksta "to dawn," Welsh berth "bright, beautiful"). Meaning "quick-witted" is from 1741.
Slang definitions & phrases for bright Expand
bright
Day; the daytime (1930s+ Black)
White 2
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Word Origin and History for white Expand
Old English hwit. from Proto-Germanic *khwitaz (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian hwit. Old Norse hvitr. Dutch wit. Old High German hwiz. German wei?. Gothic hveits ), from PIE *kwintos/*kwindos "bright" (cf. Sanskrit svetah "white;" Old Church Slavonic sviteti "to shine," svetu "light;" Lithuanian sviesti "to shine," svaityti "to brighten").
white
The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph. D.
Urban Dictionary
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About
Urban Dictionary [1] is a dictionary site composed of user-submitted definitions for slang terms used either online or in real life that are not defined in an actual dictionary. Once submitted, each definition entry is ranked by the user base and showcased in the order of popularity.
History
The website was created in 1999 by Aaron Peckham when he was a freshman studying computer science at California Polytechnic State University. [2] He started the site as a parody of dictionary. com, defining words that he heard around campus and sharing them with his friends. [3] Peckham initially advertised the site with posters around his college campus, but never did any major advertising and most of its spread has been through word of mouth. [7] The domain name Urbandictionary. com was registered in October 2001 and the submission rate of definition entries nearly quadrupled since its launch.
Among the first definition entries submitted to the site was “the man,” submitted on August 13th, 2003:
The man is the head of ‘the establishment’ put in place to ‘bring us down.’
Between June and July 2008, Urban Dictionary released a number of new site features and offline products, including an official blog for the latest updates, a redesigned editor page, a mobile-friendly version of the site, a “browse” page which indexes most popular words by alphabetical order. The website began receiving attention from the blogosphere and news media in 2008, with its inclusion in LifeHacker’s feature article [21] “Best Online Language Tools for Word Nerds” and Time Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2008 [22] :
Forget about learning Spanish or Chinese. The language you really need to know to keep up -- in the U. S. anyway -- is street lingo. To stay hip, visit Urban Dictionary, which has millions of user-submitted words and definitions.
They can also be found on Flickr [24]. Tumblr [4]. Twitter [5]. and Facebook [6]. where they have over 1.7 million likes.
Traffic
By July 2009, four million definition entries had been submitted, according to the New York Times. [23] In a Fall 2011 interview with his college’s magazine, Peckham claimed that approximately 2000 definitions are submitted to the site daily, averaging out to 1.3 a minute. [7] As of January 2012, there are over 6.3 million definitions in the dictionary. The website has a Quantcast [8] rank of 92, a Compete [9] rank of 367, and an Alexa [10] US rank of 356. The highest recorded traffic for the site was on February 3rd, 2010, the same day Mashable [11] posted an article about a Facebook trend where people were posting the Urban Dictionary definitions of their names as their statuses.
Features
Anyone can submit a definition to the site and making an account is not necessary. All new definitions must be approved by the site’s volunteer editors before they are published. The editors are given ten guidelines [18] to follow when deciding on new additions:
2. Publish racial and sexual slurs but reject racist and sexist entries.
3. Publish opinions.
4. Publish place names.
6. Publish jokes.
7. Reject sexual violence.
8. Reject nonsense. Be consistent on duplicates.
9. Reject ads for web sites.
10. Publish if it looks plausible.
One a word is published, users can then give each definition a thumbs up or thumbs down to help narrow down the best results for a word. Users can also decide on which videos [20] get added to entries. Lastly, Urban Dictionary has a discussion forum [19] where users can vote on new features the site should implement.
Publications
The first Urban Dictionary book [12] was published on October 1st, 2005 with over 300 pages compiled from the 170,000 definitions on the site at the time. Since then, several calendars and a second book have been published [13]. with a third scheduled to be released on March 27th, 2012.
An academic study [14] of the site was published in February 2007 by researchers from Queen Mary, University of London and Arizona State University. The research investigated not only the way some definitions receive more value and legitimacy than others, but also the processes by which the slang words are formed.
UrbanDictionary. tv
On January 19th, 2012, UrbanDictionary. tv [16] launched. Powered by video aggregator site VHX [17]. the site shows a definition from the site and pairs it with a video that illustrates the word. Users can vote on the video’s accuracy and suggest alternate videos.
Drug Slang Dictionary - Words Starting With W
wac - PCP on marijuana
wacky weed - Marijuana
wafers - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
waffle dust - Combination of MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) and amphetamine
wake and bake - Marijuana
wake ups - Amphetamine
wash - Methamphetamine
wasted - Under the influence of drugs; murdered
water - Blunts; methamphetamine; PCP; a mixture of marijuana and other substances within a cigar; Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB)
weed - marijuana
weed - Marijuana; PCP
weed tea - Marijuana
weight trainers - Steroids
weightless - High on crack
west coast - Methylphenidate (ritalin)
west coast turnarounds - Amphetamine; methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
wet - Blunts mixed with marijuana and PCP; methamphetamine; marijuana cigarettes soaked in PCP ("embalming fluid") and dried
wheels - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
whiffledust - Amphetamine; methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
whippets - Nitrous oxide
white - Heroin; amphetamine
white powder - Cocaine; PCP
white russian - Marijuana
white stuff - Heroin
white sugar - Crack Cocaine
white tornado - Crack Cocaine
white-haired lady - Marijuana
whiteout - Inhalants; isobutyl nitrite
whites - Amphetamine; folded paper used to package drugs
What parents need to know
Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this online dictionary of slang terms can delve into areas of sex, drugs, and violence. But it also has its finger on the pulse of of-the-moment expressions and can be humorous and thought-provoking. The content can also be shocking -- the site's guidelines say
it will "publish racial and sexual slurs" because "people use slurs in
everyday speech" -- but will reject racist and sexist entries. (Editors
Is it any good?
Families can talk about.
What is a slur? What kind of words and terms -- involving gender, race, appearance or other things -- should you not say to offend people or hurt their feelings?
Why would you not want to video chat with a stranger? What kind of things could happen that would be different or not as safe during a chat if you're able to see the person you're chatting with, instead of just typing back and forth?
Answers. 3 helpful answers below.
by iwnit on April 27th, 2009
1) Not the time, but an insight in the approval process:
"Before I begin please allow me to briefly state what I know about the current UD editing process. As I understand it, the previous editing regime allowed every single submitted definition to be published, and editing consisted of volunteer editors confirming or denying the deletion of questionable defs flagged by other users. To counteract the biased deletion of legitimate terms, UD switched to the the current program, which enlists volunteer editors to either approve, deny, or abstain judgment on all new submissions to the UD. Submissions are placed in the queue upon submission from any person who can prove they are not a spammer or bot, i. e. respond to an email confirmation, with heretofore undefined terms given preferential placement in the queue. I acknowledge this information may be inaccurate, but in my own defense let me state that what I have written here is not easy to come by."
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2) "editors 76 up, 16 down
Some of them are noobs that just reject every submission that comes their way. Others are actually intelligient and choose the right definitions to go in and reject the absolutely stupid definitions.
The editors edit urbandictionary. com. What more could I say?"
"editors 53 up, 20 down
1. The hard-working folks entrusted with reviewing all submissions to Urban Dictionary. They're not perfect, but bless their hearts, they do a darn good job at the end of the day. We should all thank the editors by buying them beer and sex.
2. The dickholes who thought they were too good to publish your definition. Hopefully their skin will fall off.
Did the editors approve your submission yet?"
"editors 17 up, 4 down
On urbandictionary. com, the people who are responsible for approving or denying definition submissions but take WAY too long (at least weeks) for one or both of two reasons: they're lazy and don't really care, or there aren't enough of them to handle all of the submissions, of which I'm sure there is an overwhelming amount.
I think it's been almost a whole month since I submitted a few definitions, and it still says "Your submission is under review by editors" for all of them. I doubt they were denied because they didn't include anything that could possibly offend anyone, advertising, names, even personal opinions, or anything against urbandictionary. com's guidelines."
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Urban Legend
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