* " Aunt Agatha ", or " Great Aunt Agatha ", is a term sometimes used somewhat disparagingly by workers in the City of London's financial markets to describe a risk-averse, low-volume, non-corporate investor.

* Aunt Nancy ( In South Carolina, Aunt Nancy is sometimes used as folk name for the spider, because the term is the Americanized version of Anansi ).

* Aunt Noovo Rich ( a pun on the French term nouveau riche )-Richie's wealthy but very eccentric aunt who is crazy about posting signs ; has a tendency to show off her wealth.

The term " Aunt Jemima " is sometimes used colloquially as a female version of the derogatory label " Uncle Tom ".

In this context, the slang term " Aunt Jemima " falls within the " Mammy archetype ", and refers to a friendly black woman who is perceived as obsequiously servile or acting in, or protective of, the interests of whites.

* The term " Aunt Sally " is used in Great Britain to indicate a false adversary or straw man set up purely for attracting negative attention and wasting an opponent's energy.

Similar term in the same context includes ah-yee ( Aunt ), yee-yee ( aunt ), or jie-jie ( elder sister ).

Or something else .” Meanwhile, Aunt Gertrude has arrived and announced that she is going to be living in the Hardy household long term.

Zeetha has declared she and Agatha are " kolee-dok-zumil "; a complex Skifandran term that might be compared to an apprenticeship.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

As he died because of a small wound on his heel, the term Achilles ' heel has come to mean one's point of weakness.

The term " the United States " has historically been used, sometimes in the plural (" these United States "), and other times in the singular, without any particular grammatical consistency.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring only to the Ionian colonies along the coast.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring to the Ionian colonies on the Asia Minor coast.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

The term " absolute value " has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English.

* The modern term " style " has a bearing on how material items such as pottery or architecture can be interpreted.

The term anti-Semitic has been used on occasion to include bigotry against other Semitic-language peoples such as Arabs, but such usage is not widely accepted.

The House of Representatives has 18 members, elected for a two year term, 17 in single-seat constituencies and one by a public meeting on Swain Island.

The Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

However, this ambiguity has been the source of controversy, particularly among Latin Americans, who feel that using the term solely for the United States misappropriates it.

The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey, in some cases for centuries ( for example, see Westminster Abbey below ).

But no attempt to identify the figures on existing gems with the personages of Gnostic mythology has had any success, and Abrasax is the only Gnostic term found in the accompanying legends which is not known to belong to other religions or mythologies.

This etymology has remained the standard derivation of the term.

The term Suebi has a double meaning in the sources.

The term has the meaning of one being crestfallen, depressed, despondent, downcast, gloomy, sullen and evidently frowning, scowling.

From the Early Modern period, their name has become a term for female warriors in general.

The term is often used synonymously with the term antibiotic ( s ); today, however, with increased knowledge of the causative agents of various infectious diseases, antibiotic ( s ) has come to denote a broader range of antimicrobial compounds, including anti-fungal and other compounds.

U Thant of course, will hold office until the spring of 1963, when Mr. Hammarskjold's term would have come to an end.

This broad use of the term is likely to have come about because alkalis were the first bases known to obey the Arrhenius definition of a base and are still among the more common bases.

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.

These leagues did not consider themselves " minor " – a term that did not come into vogue until St. Louis Cardinals GM Branch Rickey pioneered the farm system in the 1930s.

* The etymology of the term " blade runner " is revealed to come from the German phrase bleib ruhig, meaning " remain calm.

The term " Bohemianism ", when used to mean " social unconventionality ", comes from the French bohémien " Gypsy " " because Romani people were thought to come from Bohemia, or because they perhaps entered the West through Bohemia ".

The term " chicano " may have come from Mexican immigrants to the U. S. during the 1920s and 1930s, but by those originated from Chihuahua ( not the term " Chi -" hua-hua " when they came into Texas where the locals made fun of the way the Chihuahuan Mexicans, primarily indigenous rural peasants, spoke a " less common " dialect of Spanish ).

It has recently come to be known as an " extreme sport " by some ( though not commonly considered as such by its practitioners, who may dislike the term for its perceived connotation of disregard for safety ).

Fans sometimes make up explanations for such errors that may or may not be integrated into canon ; this has come to be colloquially known as fanwanking ( a term originally coined by the author Craig Hinton to describe excessive use of continuity ).

Literary scholars first used this term in the 1960s and 1970s, and the term has only come into broad use since the 1980s, especially as theory used in literary studies has increasingly been influenced by European philosophy and social theory.

Therefore, although not all languages have been investigated on this point, phoneticians have recently come to use the term lingual ( made with the tongue ) as being more accurate for this airstream mechanism than velaric ( made at the velum ).

Towards the end of his first term, the helmet became battered, with the gilt work starting to come off and with clumps of bristles missing from the top.

Due to this trend, the term " draug " has come to be used to describe any type of revenant in Nordic folklore.

As a result, it is often also used as a term of abuse for political opponents. The term has also come to be associated with megalomania.

" According to Steven Pinker, EP is " not a single theory but a large set of hypotheses " and a term which " has also come to refer to a particular way of applying evolutionary theory to the mind, with an emphasis on adaptation, gene-level selection, and modularity.