> N00p n. Bastardisation of "n00b", which is a bastardisation of "noob", which is a bastardisation of "newb", which is a bastardisation of "newbie", which means "someone new (to a field)
@bjb568 Just remember: you asked for this. Every time you say some exotic word I do not know, I look it up in the OED and give you the definition so you do not forget it next time.
Etymology: a. OFr. hasard, -art (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.): cf. Pr., Sp., Pg. azar, Ital. la zara, azzardo (from Fr.), med.L. azardum, azarum (Du Cange).
The origin of the French word is uncertain, but its source was prob. Arabic. According to William of Tyre, the game took its name from a castle called Hasart or Asart in Palestine, during the siege of which it was invented: see Littré s.v. The true Arab name of this castle appears to have been ‘Ain Zarba (Prof. Mar…
@bjb568 A game at dice in which the chances are complicated by a number of arbitrary rules.
@Unihedron a. Belonging to another country, foreign, alien (obs.). b. In narrowed sense: Introduced from abroad, not indigenous. Now chiefly of plants (in popular language with added sense of ‘not naturalized or acclimatized’); also, of words, forms of speech or writing, fashions, etc.
From a look-around at the people receiving these badges, it looks like the bug is that the badge awarderer is simply not looking at the tag score and is awarding them to whomever has reached the minimum answer count for the badge.
Whenever you find a computer spell-checking program does not know how to spell something, your best first assumption is that the program is an idiot. You will usually be right this way.
Including in this case: Wiktionary lists noöne as an “obsolete” spelling of no one.
Did people use it? Yes...
i want to host one of my project which is made in RoR. I need if there are some free web hosting site available.Please provide me some steps how to host one RoR project with its database in web server.
Whenever you find a computer spell-checking program does not know how to spell something, your best first assumption is that the program is an idiot. You will usually be right this way.
Including in this case: Wiktionary lists noöne as an “obsolete” spelling of no one.
Did people use it? Yes...
i want to host one of my project which is made in RoR. I need if there are some free web hosting site available.Please provide me some steps how to host one RoR project with its database in web server.
