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user402022

03:36

@skullpatrol Well, that would be because a politician is not a collectible doll? This is why I suggested the puppet meaning, which is the only way I could see how this definition would be applicable in context. Now I'm told this would be unlikely so I'm back to square one. By the way, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. I had checked dictionary.com, which has the definition discussed in Wikipedia.

user402022

@userr2684291 I don't feel like creating an account. I may post the Q. as an unregistered user. I will try to avoid using s.o. in the future for "someone".

user402022

@snailboat Thanks for the feedback!

user402022

03:52

@skullpatrol I've checked the source article for the reference which is not in English. The issue was actually an problem with the translation. In English you had a sentence such as "X politician was depicted as a bobblehead" whereas in some translation the word "described" was used instead. The definition in Urban might be equating bobblehead with big head as in some inflated ego. So yeah, in the end there is no question about this after all.

user402022

Thanks all.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

07:22

@suiiurisesse Dictionaries use "sb."

Antimony

CowperKettle

07:58

De la pirotechnia

De la Pirotechnia is considered to be the first printed book on metallurgy to have been published in Europe. It was written in Italian and first published in Venice in 1540. The author was Vannoccio Biringuccio, a citizen of Siena, Italy, who died before it was published. Further editions were published in 1550, 1558, 1559, and 1678, with a (sloppy) French translation by Jacques Vincent being published in 1556, 1572, and 1627. Parts were translated into Latin (by Georgius Agricola), English (Richard Eden; Peter Whitehorn) and Spanish (Bernardo Perez de Vargas) at various times in the 1550s...

userr2684291

08:08

@suiiurisesse Well if you don't feel like it... lol. You know it's just one or two clicks away, right? You can also always delete it afterwards...

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Dictionaries are definitely pro-money.

Had to wrestle with a 🐝 this morning. Holy moly. It was hovering and buzzing between the window that I'd left ajar (not sure what the right term is when it's inclined from above, towards you) and the curtain. Top 3 scariest anime situations in my life.

Had to kill it because it looked startled and I couldn't find a better way to approach it without endangering myself. ):

Well, I'm sure there was a more humane way to handle it, but ya. It was touch and go.

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user402022

10:23

@userr2684291 Thank you, I don't mean it in a disrespectful way. Anyways it finally turns out this was mostly due to some imprecise translation and the source material was actually referring to those dolls.

user402022

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Thanks, not sure where I got that "s.o." from. I usually don't use much abbreviations when I write. Anyways, cheers.

CowperKettle

10:44

Word of the day: cerumen impaction

SmokeDetector

11:19

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userr2684291

11:41

Word of the day: ditz

@suiiurisesse For what it's worth I think you were on to something.

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userr2684291

23:13

Ugh.

userr2684291

23:28

Expression of the day: What am I – chopped liver?

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