Etymology
 

holiday

Old English: haligdæg, from halig "holy" + dæg "day"

^^^I'm offended!!!!! I say we ban it!!!!!!

Yeppers. In my parents religion, all their "holidays" are called Holy Days instead.

what about Abraham Lincoln Day?

I *heart* the Abe.

I am not touching this one!

-- Modelofselfrestraintypants

;)

butt'

Middle English, from Old French boter, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German b*zan to beat more at BEAT

weasel'

Middle English wesele, from Old English weosule; akin to Old High German wisula weasel

:D Oh come on, Smarty! Don't hold back now!

Not even acknolwedged.

And, yes, the Abe was hot. Especially with his wooden false teeth...

i thought that was washington.

i want false teeth.

*waves to mi amo pants-o-smart*

First let me just say: "acknolwedged" <--- I'm so cool.

Was it Washington? Well sheez, I can't even spell, Spicy! How do you expect me to keep those old dead presidents straight?!

um...i believe a few actually weren't straight. so you are okay. you can be in the "Spicy Still Thinks You Are A Cute Butt Weasly Club" ... or what the members like to call SSTUAACBWC!!!!!!

;)

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Hosea

masc. proper name, from Heb. Hoshea, lit. "salvation," from stem y-sh- "to save."

Frank

c.1300, from O.Fr. franc "free, sincere, genuine," from M.L. Franc "a freeman, a Frank," one of the Gmc. people that conquered Celtic Gaul from the Romans c.500 C.E. and called it France, from Frankish *Frank (cf. O.H.G. Franko, O.E. Franca). The connection is that only Franks, as the conquering class, had the status of freemen. Sense of "outspoken" first recorded in Eng. 1548 (frankly in this sense is from c.1540). The origin of the ethnic name is uncertain; it traditionally is said to be from the old Gmc. word *frankon "javelin, lance" (cf. O.E. franca; also Saxon, traditionally from root of O.E. seax "knife"), their preferred weapon, but the opposite may be the case. In the Levant, this was the name given to anyone of Western nationality (cf. Feringhee). Verbal sense of "to free a letter for carriage or an article for publication" (1708) is from Fr. affranchir, from the same source.[b]