What is the least vulgar but still natural (not overly formal) of these: Bum, bottom, backside, behind, rear end... As she walked past him, he stared at her _________.
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A woman's butt was allegedly touched by a man several times during a commute on the MRT.   How to use butt, bottom, buttock and ass? I am confusing with these words.
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Any situation, any time; this person has always something negative to say about it.  It should be a noun or an adjective to describe a person who is a damp cloud walking over every sunshine situations at the cubicle, hoping to drench other people with his miserable comments.    I considered "sourpuss" but would prefer something more important sounding, like "misogynist."
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I am looking for a word which can be used to describe someone who is very "comfortable in their skin", secure with themselves, and most importantly completely immune to being embarrassed or mocked.  Some examples might include consistently mispronouncing a word in a conversation (like "pirate" instead of "pilot") without feeling silly, even though others try to mock him/her. Or more seriously, not feeling embarrassed at all if their private photographs (ie in the shower or some other scandal-like situation) were leaked.  Words like "unashamed", "unabashed" or "unapologetic" usually have a negative connotation and do not seem applicable, since the person is not necessarily doing things which society would consider shameful from a moral standpoint.
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What would you call a person that just stands by and won't act? Is kind of acting like a spectator when in reality that person should do something?  I know there is a word for this because I knew what it was a few hours ago but now I can’t remember it.
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In  by Vernor Vinge:      She slipped Quiller's in place and turned on the oxygen feed. She recognized the smell that still hung in her helmet: The tracer stench that tagged their landing fuel.   That smell from the tracer was inside the helmet? Why he says “the smell that still hung on her helmet”? The smell was there since when?  The smell got to the helmet after she turned on the oxygen feed?
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I'm trying to say:       He probably gained some __________ [good notoriety] from this picture.   I was thinking publicity, but that connotes some kind of negative to me as well (like the stuff you see in gossip magazines at the checkout line).  I want a word as powerfully positive as notoriety is powerfully negative.
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This is the part four in the interesting series: "OK we are all X here, so really". You can find the past episodes here:        Travelling always requires a bit of adjustment. While doing our favorite activity we always leave home our comfort, our routines and, unfortunately, Italians (and others) leave home their beloved .  The question is simple: what are the substitutes / tips&amp;tricks for bidet while travelling in bidet-unfriendly countries so that we can do our business without end up feeling, let's say, uncomfortable?
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Is it right to say   He was telling me that he will go on a vacation next week.  while recounting your experience?  Even though "he told me that he is going..." seems more appropriate, I would still like to know if the above mentioned expression sounds okay or not.
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Further to the question I posted today about the meaning of the expression, “treat somebody pretty ugly,” which appeared in New York Times’ article (September 17) titled “Rick Perry, Uber Texan,” I wonder about implications of the term, g-dropping, a question I earlier put aside. The term g-dropping appears at the beginning of the article:  YOU think of Rick Perry, you think of Texas. And more Texas. Perry the cowboy coyote-killer, the lord of the Texas job-creation machine, the g-dropping glad-hander with a “howdy” for every stranger in the room. He barely exists in the national mind outside of the Texas connection.  I understand g-dropping means the habit of dropping g in pronouncing –ing.  However, what does this trait represent?  That is, what sort of people  habitually drop g's? I've heard Texans drawl. Does g-dropping represent a particular talking style, character of speakers, educational background, regionality, or something else?  If not, why did the author insert the term, g-dropping, in describing the character of a Presidential candidate?
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This is hard to describe, but I'm curious about what the proper word is for these thingies in English.  So I searched for a picture on Google and circled what I'm referring to with red:
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Friend: Have you ever flirted with a female cop?      Me: Nope.      Friend: I have done that experience.   I think experience is the wrong word here. What else should he have said?
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Is there a word for the selfish kind of (possibly humourous) delight felt at someone else's failure?  e.g.     No matter how I tried, I couldn't complete the seemingly simple task. So feeling like an idiot I gave up and asked the expert. But to my ______, he couldn't do it either!   Edit  I don't feel like schadenfreude really fits - it seems to be more about a sadistic sort of pleasure in someone else's bad fortune. Whereas I'm looking for a sort of combination of humour, a touch of triumph and maybe even relief - and a little bit of, as Walt said, "it's not just that I'm an idiot" (if applicable).
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As seen at:           Update: I'm 101% sure the down votes were due to the lack of free hands.    Update 2: likes me, like me not, like me, likes me not... yeah !
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I was on a mountain the other day and had a moment where I just had to stop and take it all in. I felt insignificant (in the best way) and just stopped to admire where I was. The closest words I could find was something along the lines of biophilia, or the German word Waldeinsamkeit.
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I took this photo by the lake last Saturday, Grandma. It looks lovely.   Do you know any of these people?      Yes, I do. The man who’s reading the newspaper is William.      He’s wearing a nice hat.      He is, isn’t he? Grandpa knows him, I think!   Why don't they say "he was wearing a nice hat" because that was happening in the past?  Can we use the present tense to describe people in a video?  For example, "Look at you in this video! You are smiling and swimming in a bathtub".
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On the recommendation of some regulars here, I managed to watch the movie The Madness of King George  over the weekend, and found it excellent.  Anyway, one funny scene in the movie is when King George, who despite being contentedly married is quite flirtatious, remarks on the looks of one of the Queen Consort's ladies-in-waiting to the head of his attending guards:     That's Lady Penbrook. Handsome woman, what? Daughter of the Duke of Marlborough...husband's an utter rascal.    Is the usage of "handsome" here archaic, or just rarely used by those in the know? If the former, when did it become so?
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Bob Harris gets ready to leave Japan and initially bids goodbye to Charlotte near  the elevator in the hotel.  He sees her again on the way and they share a kiss and he whispers something in her ear to which Charlotte acknowledges. I cannot wrap my head around the significance of that scene, what does it mean?  Anyone explanation would be greatly helpful.