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  1. Dec 9, 2013 · The expression meaning "worthy, jolly, admirable" (especially in 1864 U.S. slang bully for you!) is first attested 1680s, and preserves an earlier, positive sense of the word. So, in the subheading SYCOPHANTS, MINIONS, DEPENDANTS, PIMPS AND BULLIES

  2. the origin of the word 'pimp' this week in Greek class we learned the vocab word πεμπω, or pempo, which means 'to send' or 'to bid a thing to be carried to one'. Which sounds an awful lot like a pimp.

  3. Dec 10, 2020 · pimp. A male procurer, or cock bawd; also a small faggot used about London for lighting fires, named from introducing the fire to the coals. [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," London, 1785]

  4. Feb 11, 2008 · The word pimp is of unknown origin. It first appeared in English around 1600 and was used then as now to mean “a person who arranges opportunities for sexual intercourse with a prostitute.”...

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    The Mycenaean Civilization (c. 1700-1100 BCE) developed over 100 urban centers across Greece and Anatolia and kept records through the writing system known as Linear B Script. Linear B developed from the Linear A Script of the Minoan Civilization (2000-1450 BCE), but as Linear Aremains undeciphered, their relationship is unclear. Linear B was a syl...

    At some point between 800-700 BCE, the alphabet was introduced to the Greeks by the Phoenicians (most likely through Phoenician traders), but how this happened is unclear. Herodotus(l. c. 484-425/413 BCE) provides the best-known version of the event: Powell, among others, dismisses this account as "nascent historical thinking…seeking to place past ...

    Once the script was mastered, it was used to record far more than lists of inventory. The oral tradition of Greece, developed during the Dark Age and featuring tales of the creation of the world, the birth of the gods, and the adventures of great heroes, could now be committed to written form, and this seems to have happened fairly quickly after th...

    As the alphabet allowed one to build on lessons of the past, it encouraged the development of philosophical, scientific, medical, religious, political, cultural, and social systems. In Greece, the concept of democracy was already understood and practiced during the Dark Age, but during the Archaic and Classical ages, it developed into a recognizabl...

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  7. Alpha male. In ethology (the study of behavior), the term alpha male refers the dominant male member among a group of social animals. The term assigns the first character of the Greek alphabet (alpha) to the position of the most dominant member of the hierarchy.

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