Conspire meaning to breath out7/12/2023 ![]() Of course, we now use the word ‘bolshie’ to mean pushy, awkward and uncooperative. Their opponents thus became known as the Mensheviks, from the Russian word men’she meaning ‘less’ or ‘minority’, even though they were the larger faction overall. ![]() Although the word ‘cookie’ is now commonly used in the UK too.Įver wondered why the Russians named the two sides of their political parties Bolsheviks and Mensheviks? When the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) split in 1903, Lenin and his supporters gained a temporary majority and took the name Bolshevik, from the Russian word bol’she meaning ‘greater’. What the UK call biscuits, the US calls cookies. Incidentally, in the US a biscuit is more like a UK scone. Originally, biscuits were cooked twice – first baked in a hot oven and then dried out in a cool oven so they’d keep. It originates from the Latin bis, meaning ‘twice’, and coctus, from coquere, meaning ‘to cook’. The literal meaning of ‘biscuit’ describes how a biscuit is baked. Why did the word for bench become the name for a bank? Because money dealers used benches as tables. ‘Rupt’ does indeed come from the Latin rupt, meaning ‘broken’, but the word ‘bank’ comes from banca meaning ‘bench’. The word ‘bankrupt’ (meaning insolvent or financially ruined) seems self-explanatory, doesn’t it? ‘Bank’, a place where we keep our money, and ‘rupt’, implying ruptured. Here are 12 words with surprising original or literal meanings. Ever wondered what the ‘tide’ in ‘yuletide’ means? Do you know the literal meaning of the word ‘conspire’? Over time, meanings of words change with popular use. ![]()
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