Our local Virginia school sports district is called "Hogoheegee". Can anyone tell me the meaning of the word?
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Hogoheegee is an American Indian word. It’s the name the natives gave to what’s now called the Tennessee River and, some say, its tributaries, including Southwest Virginia’s Holston. The word means, simply, "big river."
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Croatoan\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Roanoke\n\nThere is a lot of debate about what that meant.
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A bama is a word used in the DC,VA,MD area mostly, it means some one who cant dress well or just acts like a punk. Like if someone snitched on you you could be like "Man you are suck a f*ckin bama!". Or as my brother and i often joke, when the other does something stupid/corny, we say "Ah youz a bama man!" lol it can be endearing. But mostly just a negative term to say you dont like someone.
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Sounds like its a slang term for a test. like POTUS ( president of the united states )
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curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/frog/
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from The Word Hoosier by  Jeffrey Graf, Reference Department Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington \n\n\nThe best evidence, however, suggests that "Hoosier" was a term of contempt and opprobrium common in the upland South and used to denote a rustic, a bumpkin, a countryman, a roughneck, a hick or an awkward, uncouth or unskilled fellow. Although the word's derogatory meaning has faded, it can still be heard in its original sense, albeit less frequently than its cousins "Cracker" and "Redneck." \n\nAs for the word itself, it probably derives from the Saxon word "hoo" meaning promontory or cliff or ridge or rise or hill. Jacob Piatt Dunn, the finest scholar of the word, believes a Saxon beginning, and such a meaning survives in various place names in England. There is some sense in the notion, too, that those who applied the insult and those to whom it was applied (and who understood it) came primarily from British stock. \n\nThe unusual (ier or sier) ending has always been difficult to explain. Might it be from "scir" the old form of "shire?" The Hoo Shire would then be the Hill Country, the High Places or the Mountain Region. Would that meaning then extend to those who lived in the hills, making them the "hooscirs" and later the "Hoosiers," the mountain people, hillbillies by another name? \n\nIndiana Notes and Queries\nhttp://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/internet/extra/hoosier.html\nNovember 1, 2000. Revised April 12, 2002
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I've heard it all my life, for sure. \n\nI found it for you, at the infoplease dictionary.\n\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0364702.html\n\ncat•a•wam•pus\n\nPronunciation: (kat"u-wom'pus), [key] Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. \n\n—adj. \n1. askew; awry. \n2. positioned diagonally; cater-cornered. \n\n—adv. \ndiagonally; obliquely: We took a shortcut and walked catawampus across the field. Also,cattywampus.
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Sorry, I couldn't find the meaning anywhere but I guess it's an abbreviation of some sort.\nSome 5-6 years ago there were these really stupid toys called Furby and they made a sound just like that "wurrrrrrv". It's also like the sound a cat makes when you stroke her chin.
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It's ok. I've heard of it before, probably from Top Gun. It's most certainly not a name I would pick though.  \n\nIt's a name that means independent... and implicitly implies strength.
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i'm not 100% sure, but i'm taking US history and we were talking about that and it comes from a spanish term very similar to the term "yankee" and i'm not entirly sure what it means or how its spelled its pronouced "yawnkee" i believe.  that was the term for the Union and since the South wasn't a part of the Union in the Civil War then i guess thats why the North was referred to as "yankees".\n\nI hope that helps.
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It looks from the dialogue that you spelled the word pretty much correctly, but as it is an American custom, you wouldn't be able to find it in a dictionary, I don't think.\n\nIn American high schools (secondary schools), and at colleges and universities,  there is often a week in the autumn designated as Homecoming Week. This is a time to "welcome home" all the alumni who no longer live there. There are many different activites for the students during the week. There is also a football (American football) game, called the Homecoming game, and a dance called Homecoming. The week is a time for the students to enjoy, but is also a time for alumni of the school to come back and visit. Many times at a Homecoming game, you will see alumni in the stands, cheering their school's team on. \n\nEspecially in high school, the Homecoming Dance is usually a big deal and is a formal dance, meaning fancy dresses for the girls and suits or tuxedos for the boys. There are many dances for students through a school year in an American high school, but some are casual and some are more fancy, and Homecoming is a fancy one. \n\nIn the above dialogue, the boy and the girl are talking about who they are going to the Homecoming Dance with. Being asked to accompany someone to a dance is a very big deal, and unless a dance is designated as "girl's choice", the boys get to choose who to ask. There is a lot of other cultural significance to high school dances and rituals surrounding them, but that is the basic explanation of what Homecoming is. Hope it helps.
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It could mean one of 4 things:\n\n- Woohoo\n- Root (hacker slang) (Internet and IT)\n- Wonderful Loot (Everquest)\n- We Own the Other Team (gaming)
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Roanoke County’s name comes from the Indian word “Rawenok,” which means wampum. These were white shell beads worn by Native Americans. This explanation was handed down from Captain John Smith who wrote about the origin of Roanoke Island in North Carolina’s Albemarle Sound
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Hooah is a term that means basically anything you want it to mean.  I was told it came from the acronym HUA meaning Heard Understood and Acknowledged.
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There is a school not far from here whose teams go by the name of the Wooden Shoes.  I understand they are mostly Dutch in heritage.
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It's a mix of French,creole, and English spoken by young people in the French West Indies, for instance Guadeloupe (where I'm from)! \n\nIt means:\n"Keep up the good work (or anything you're currently doing). What you're doing is awesome!!! I wish you a lot of courage and "big up".\n\nYou can reply thanking the person because they're wishing you good luck!
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"Whitout" school. \n\nIt's true.\n\nYour future is behind you.