SWAG• \SWAG/

• NOUNS

• MEANING-1. A CURTAIN OR PIECE OF FABRIC FASTENED SO AS TO HANG IN A DROOPING CURVE.

• 2. A CARVED OR PAINTED REPRESENTATION OF A SWAG OF FLOWERS, FOLIAGE, OR FRUIT.

• VERB

• 1. ARRANGE IN OR DECORATE WITH A SWAG OR SWAGS OF FABRIC.

MORE SWAG •INFORMAL

•1. MONEY OR GOODS TAKEN FROM A ROBBERY

•2. A LARGE NUMBER, AMOUNT, OR VARIETY.

•3. AN ALTERNATIVE WORD FOR COOL

•AUSTRALIAN

•1. A TRAVELER'S OR MINER'S BUNDLE OF PERSONAL BELONGINGS.

THE SWAG ORIGIN OF SWAG

•ORIGIN

•MIDDLE ENGLISH (IN THE SENSE ‘BULGING BAG’): PROBABLY OF

SCANDINAVIAN ORIGIN. THE ORIGINAL SENSE OF THE VERB (EARLY 16TH

CENTURY) WAS ‘CAUSE TO SWAY OR SAG.’

•THE LITERAL MEANING OF SWAG IS HANG HEAVILY

ARCANUM

•\ÄRˈKĀNƏ-UHM/

•1) A MYSTERY OR DEEP SECRET.

•2) AN ELIXIR OR SECRET REMEDY

•WORD FOUNDED IN THE 1590-1600

•1590-1600; < LATIN, NEUTER (USED AS NOUN) OF ARCĀNUS ARCANE

NICHOLAS

•GENDER: MASCULINE

•USAGE: ENGLISH, FRENCH

•PRONOUNCED: NIK-Ə-LAS (ENGLISH), NEE-KO-LAH (FRENCH)

•IN GREEK IT MEANS VICTORY OF THE PEOPLE, NIKE VICORY, AND

LAOS MEANING PEOPLE

BEHIND THE NAME NICK

•SAINT NICHOLAS WAS A 4TH-CENTURY BISHOP FROM ANATOLIA WHO,

ACCORDING TO LEGEND, SAVED THE DAUGHTERS OF A POOR MAN FROM

LIVES OF PROSTITUTION. HE FORMED THE BASIS FOR THE FIGURE KNOWN

AS SANTA CLAUS (CREATED IN THE 19TH CENTURY FROM

DUTCH SINTERKLAAS), THE BRINGER OF CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.

WEAVER (SURNAME)

•PRONUNCIATION: ˈWĒVƏR/

•DEVELOPED FROM THE JOB OR OCCUPATION OF WEAVING

•SOME EXAMPLES OF THIS SURNAME MAY MEAN "FROM THE RIVER WEAVER

(NOW WEAVER HALL), CHESHIRE", FROM THE OLD ENGLISH WEFER

MEANING "WINDING STREAM“

SHENANIGANS

• PRONUNCIATION: \SHƏˈNANƏɡƏNZ/

• DEFINITION: SECRET OR DISHONEST ACTIVITY OR MANEUVERING.

• 2. SILLY OR HIGH-SPIRITED BEHAVIOR; MISCHIEF.

• ORIGIN: IT ORIGINATED IN CALIFORNIA AROUND 1855 ABOUT THE TIME OF THE GOLD

RUSH, ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT CLEAR WHAT THE ORIGIN IS SOME SAY IT WAS DEVELOPED

IN IRELAND IN THE 17TH CENTURY, SOME SAY THAT IT WAS DEVELOPED EVEN AS FAR

BACK AS 16TH CENTURY. ALTHOUGH THE MOST WIDELY EXEPTED VERSION IS IT WAS

DEVELOPED IN THE 1855’S DURING THE GOLD RUSH.

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