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Kaichi (2219 words)
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Irish origin, by w8f
thou varlet!, by trivet
picaresque, by trivet
my kith & kin, by faraway
nsanch's Words, by nsanch
Up the river, by Asativum
Sportie: Calcio, by bilby
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The term "hooligan" has a disputed derivation, but it is generally accepted to have begun to appear in London police reports in 1898 in relation to violent street gangs.
Writer, Clarence Rook (1862-1915) wrote a book entitled The Hooligan Nights which was about a young criminal’s story told in his own words.
In this account, Rook wrote: “There was but a few years ago, a man called Patrick Hooligan, who walked to and fro among his fellow men, robbing and occasionally bashing them.”
Haha! Oily birds aren't quite as funny, of course. :-(
Well, like they say: The oily fish gets the worm.
Wow. That must be one oily fish.
Also a colloquial name for the mighty eulachon, or Thaleichthys pacificus, an anadromous smelt of the north Pacific. It is also called the candlefish because, as Wikipedia tells us, "if caught, dried, and strung on a wick, it can be burned as a candle."
I can only imagine how that was discovered.