Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Word of the Day for Tuesday, November 27, 2007

kvetch \KVECH\, adjective:
  1. To complain habitually.
  2. A complaint.
  3. A habitual complainer.
Urban Word of the Day
November 27, 2007: sweet as
  1. New zealand slang for "everything's okay."
  2. Can also be used in place of "yes!"

"yeah, my night was sweet as, got [on the piss] with some mates and sung [karaoke]... badly"

  • "wanna beer mate?"
  • "yeah, sweet as"
Trivia

Who coined the phrase “survival of the fittest”?

  • Herbert Spencer, the British philosopher and sociologist. The phrase is attributed to him in the fifth edition of Darwin’s The Origin of Species. Spencer had used the term in his book Principles of Biology.
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