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* '''camibalistics''' → cum (''Latin/English'') + balls (testicles); see also [[Whoyteboyce]] and [[Verdons]]
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** '''cum:''' (''Latin'') with; used in indicating a thing with two roles, functions, or natures, or a thing that has changed from one to another [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cum]
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** '''cum:''' (''slang'') Male semen. As a noun meaning "semen or other product of orgasm" it is on record from the 1920s [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cum]
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* '''cam:''' in engineering, a mechanical linkage which translates circular motion into linear motion
 
* '''cam:''' in engineering, a mechanical linkage which translates circular motion into linear motion
  

Revision as of 16:36, 5 April 2010

  • camibalistics → cum (Latin/English) + balls (testicles); see also Whoyteboyce and Verdons
    • cum: (Latin) with; used in indicating a thing with two roles, functions, or natures, or a thing that has changed from one to another [1]
    • cum: (slang) Male semen. As a noun meaning "semen or other product of orgasm" it is on record from the 1920s [2]
  • cam: in engineering, a mechanical linkage which translates circular motion into linear motion
  • Cam: the River Cam in Cambridge, England
  • ballistics: the science of the motion, behavior, and effects of projectiles
  • cannibal: someone who eats human flesh
    • Ulysses 077.33-34: "Rum idea: eating bits of a corpse why the cannibals cotton to it."
  • cannon balls
  • baliste: (French) a type of siege engine → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)
  • ballista: an early form of crossbow
  • kami: (Japanese) divine
  • cam: (Northern dialect) a ridge or mound, such as those which divide plots of land and on which are planted hedges. From the Scandinavian kame = "comb", "crest", "serrated ridge" → may be a reference to an Irish Neolithic tomb and mound-building cultures
  • cam: (Welsh) crooked, bent, awry; wrong; (by extension) unorthodox
  • Cumbria: the ancient name for a region of northwest England (now a county, but only since 1974)