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-er

Oxford "-er", a colloquial and sometimes facetious suffix prevalent at Oxford University from about 1875.

2007 Formula One espionage controversy

Along with Michael Schumacher, Jean Todt, Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne, Nigel Stepney was part of the colloquial “dream team” credited with the change of fortunes of Ferrari in the late 1990s.

Adventures of Captain Vrungel

Vrungel is parody of a Wrangel surname, where the first part made from a colloquial word "vrun" (врун), Russian for liar.

Agathosma

In colloquial use however, the term (see Boegoe) is applied to a wider set of fragrant shrubs or substitutes.

American buffalo

American buffalo is the colloquial name for the American bison.

Amor Artificial

# "Quevoasaber" (Spelled as colloquial pronunciation for Que voy a saber) English: How Would I Know? or, more loosely, I Have No Clue

Brum

Brummagem, a colloquial name for Birmingham, England or the Birmingham dialect

Bungaroosh

The etymology of the word is unknown, but the first part may derive from the colloquial verb "to bung", meaning to put something somewhere hastily or carelessly.

Ciudadela, Buenos Aires

The subject of ongoing controversy, its colloquial name stems from Fort Apache, The Bronx, a 1981 movie about a crime-ridden part of New York City.

Comparison of Scottish Gaelic and Irish

:Connacht Irish — Cén chaoi a bhfuil sibh? (plural), Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú? (singular), in colloquial speech Ce chuil sib/tú

Dallas Angguish

Angguish's poetry is in the tradition of queer poetics initiated by Walt Whitman and consolidated by Allen Ginsberg, a tradition that foregrounds the colloquial voice, a first person, personal point of view and the expression of an erotic and mystical vision.

Dopesick

:This article topic is about the album of this name, for the colloquial term "dope sickness" see Withdrawal syndrome

Gamp

Gamp is a colloquial, primarily British, term for an umbrella, after the Dickens' character Mrs Sairey Gamp.

Golden Cavalry of St George

The Golden Cavalry of St George was the colloquial name of subsidies paid out by the British government to other European states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through particularly during the Napoleonic Wars.

Hayrack

Slovenian names for the hayrack include kozolec and kazuc (colloquial, usually referring to a single straight-line hayrack), stog (commonly found in Upper Carniola and especially in the area around Studor in the Bohinj region), and toplar.

Honorific

During the ancient and imperial periods, Chinese honorifics varied greatly based on one's social status, but with the end of Imperial China, many of these distinctions fell out of colloquial use.

Ibrahim 'Ali Salman

The poetry about his homeland Dar al-Manasir and the ongoing issue of the relocation of his tribe as a result of the Merowe Dam project is written in the Colloquial Arab language of the Manasir.

Jaunting car

The colloquial name for the driver of a jaunting car was "jarvey", referenced in the song "The Jarvey Was a Leprechaun" by Val Doonican.

John Lasarus Williams

This inspired him to become a founder of Undeb y Gymraeg Fyw, and through this organisation was the main organiser of Sioe Gymraeg y Borth (the Welsh show for Menai Bridge using the colloquial form of its Welsh name).

Karhu Team

The colloquial name for the group is Karhukopla, i.e. Beagle Boys, after the Disney comics characters.

Kenig

Kenig or Kyonig is also the colloquial Russian name for Kaliningrad (formerly the German city of Königsberg, from which the nickname is derived)

Maracas-Saint Joseph

Maracas-Saint Joseph is a colloquial name used in Trinidad and Tobago to distinguish the Maracas Valley above the town of Saint Joseph from Maracas Beach.

Marmara Ereğlisi

It is called Marmara Ereğlisi (or Marmara Ereğli in colloquial usage) to distinguish it from the two other large towns in Turkey with the name Ereğli (deriving from the Greek name Heraclea), one in Konya Province (Konya Ereğlisi), the other on the Black Sea coast (Karadeniz Ereğli).

Mercat del Born

Despite this colloquial name given to the area (which is often applied to the entire district), it is still officially called la Ribera or Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera.

Mishihase

The term Sushen, rendered 肅愼, is found in Chinese records, but is annotated as Mishihase or Ashihase in Japanese language documents, which should have developed into *Mishiwase or *Ashiwase in Modern Japanese if the word had survived in colloquial speech.

Moonraker

Moonrakers, a colloquial name for people from Wiltshire, England

Nic fit

Nic fit is a colloquial expression for Nicotine withdrawal.

Nitten

Nitten, the colloquial name for the town of Newtongrange in Midlothian, Scotland

Patrick Joseph Hartigan

The refrain We'll all be rooned from his poem Said Hanrahan has entered colloquial Australian English as a jocular response to any prediction of dire consequences arising, particularly, from events outside the interlocutor's control.

Pocitos

:Pocitos is also the colloquial name for the city of Salvador Mazza, Salta Province, Argentina

Qélé, Qélé

After the initial composition and main lyric suggestion ("Qélé, Qélé" which in colloquial Armenian translates to "Come On, Come On") by music composer and producer H.A. Der-Hovagimian, lyrics were written by the performer Sirusho herself.

Ron Androla

His work also demonstrates the considerable influence of Charles Bukowski, especially in its disaffection and in its use of the short line, paratactical structures, colloquial enjambments and stream of consciousness technique.

Sandy Balls

Due to the estate's name having a humorous sound in Modern English colloquial usage, Sandy Balls has been used in various jokes and comedies.

Schtonk!

The title is a bow to Charlie Chaplin's classic The Great Dictator, in which the Führer repeatedly uses "Schtonk!" as an expression of disgust – the word has no meaning in German but resembles Stunk (pronounced as shtoonk), a colloquial expression for a scuffle or altercation.

Shinola

Ween released a 2005 compilation album titled, Shinola, Vol. 1 that plays on the colloquial phrase mentioned above.

Shinola, Vol. 1

The album gets its title from the colloquial phrase, 'You don't know shit from Shinola'.

Silberling

Silberling is the colloquial name for the n-coaches of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, a type of regional passenger coach of which more than 7,000 units were built from 1958 to 1981.

Smut

The song "Smut" by Tom Lehrer from the album That Was the Year That Was (referencing the colloquial meaning of the term)

The Motor Bus

The poem traditionally commemorates the introduction of a motorised omnibus service in the city of Oxford (Corn and High are the colloquial names of streets in the centre of the city where several Colleges of the University are located), thereby shattering the bucolic charm of the horse-drawn age.

The Ogre Downstairs

Author Neil Gaiman, when reading the last chapter of this book aloud to his daughter, realised to his amusement that the "classical Greek" spoken by the Hells Angels who sprout in the supermarket parking lot turns out to be colloquial English when the Greek letters are sounded out.

The Oprah line

The Oprah line is a colloquial term for Oprah Winfrey's finishing time of 4:29:20 in the 1994 Marine Corps Marathon.

The Winslow

The Winslow is technically sentient and capable of speech, though rarely says anything more than the informal, colloquial greeting "Hi!", which it often enjoys repeating ad nauseam.

Tukuyu

The local language is colloquial Nyakyusa together with the national language Swahili.

WEIO

The acronym "WEIO" is commonly used as a colloquial reference to the World Eskimo Indian Olympics.

Woki mit deim Popo

"Woki mit deim Popo" (colloquial Austrian German for "waggle your ass") is a song by Austrian duo Trackshittaz.


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