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noun
1.
an English person of the period before the Norman Conquest.
2.
Old English (def. 1).
3.
the original Germanic element in the English language.
4.
plain and simple English, especially language that is blunt, monosyllabic, and often rude or vulgar.
5.
EXPANDa person whose native language is English.
adjective
8.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Anglo-Saxons.
9.
of or pertaining to Anglo-Saxon.
10.
English-speaking; British or American.
11.
(of words, speech, or writing) blunt, monosyllabic, and often vulgar.
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Anglo-saxon
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| Anglo-Saxon | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a member of any of the West Germanic tribes (Angles, Saxons, and Jutes) that settled in Britain from the 5th century |
| 2. | See Old English the language of these tribes |
| 3. | any White person whose native language is English and whose cultural affiliations are those common to Britain and the US |
| 4. | informal plain blunt English, esp English containing taboo words |
| —adj | |
| 5. | forming part of the Germanic element in Modern English: ``forget'' is an Anglo-Saxon word |
| 6. | of or relating to the Anglo-Saxons or the Old English language |
| 7. | of or relating to the White Protestant culture of Britain, Australia, and the US |
| 8. | informal (of English speech or writing) plain and blunt |
| 9. | of or relating to Britain and the US, esp their common legal, political, and commercial cultures, as compared to continental Europe |
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Word Origin & History
Anglo-Saxon
O.E. Angli Saxones, from L. Anglo-Saxones, in which anglo- is an adverb, thus lit. "English Saxons," as opposed to those of the Continent (now called "Old Saxons"). Properly in ref. to the Saxons of ancient Wessex, Essex, Middlesex, and Sussex. After the Norman-Fr. invasion of 1066, the peoples of the
EXPANDisland were distinguished as English and French, but after a few generations all were English, and L. scribes, who knew and cared little about Gmc. history, began to use Anglo-Saxones to refer to the pre-1066 inhabitants and their descendants. When interest in O.E. writing revived c.1586, the word was extended to the language we now call Old English. It has been used rhetorically for "English" in an ethnological sense from 1832, and revisioned as Angle + Saxon.
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