strident \ STRAHYD-nt \ , adjective;
- making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges .
- having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his writings .
- Linguistics . (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates.
Origin: Strident entered English in the mid-1600s from the Latin strīdēre meaning "to make a harsh noise."
Fwerking
- The act of fapping and twerking simutainiously. Some see as a dance move, others a sign of the devil.
"Dude check out this fwerking!
"THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU"
History
- Caracas: Captain Diego de Losada founded Venezuela's capital, then known as Santiago de Leon de Caracas (1567)
- Henry IV of France: embraced Roman Catholicism for the second time; he had abandoned Protestantism in order to win Paris (1593)
- General of the Army: Ulysses S. Grant became the first officer to hold the US army's highest rank (1866)
- Bikini Atoll: America tested the first underwater atomic bomb (1946)
- Rock band YES released their debut album (1969)
test-tube baby: Louise Joy Brown, the first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization, was born in Oldham, England (1978)
- Thomas Eakins 1844
- Morris Raphel Cohen 1880
- Walter Brennan 1894
- Eric Hoffer 1902
- Jack Gilford 1907
- Estelle Getty 1924
- Stanley Dancer 1927
- Don Ellis 1934
- Barbara Harris 1935
- John Pennel 1940
- Manuel Charlton (Nazareth) 1941
- Janet Margolin 1943
- Jim McCarty (Yardbirds) 1943
- Donna Theodore 1945
- Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) 1951
- Walter Payton (NFL) 1954
- Iman 1955
- Ray Billingsley 1957
- Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) 1958
- Marty Brown 1965
- Illeana Douglas 1965
- Matt LeBlanc 1967 - Actor ("Friends")
- Brad Renfro 1982
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