Ladle Carver
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Zorn's Gemälde kann als sexualisierte Darstellung empfunden werden, oder auch nicht. Das hängt unter Anderem von den unterschiedlichen Bildern ab, die wir uns von den Menschen und ihrem Verhalten gemacht haben.
November 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Zorn's Gemälde kann als sexualisierte Darstellung empfunden werden, oder auch nicht. Das hängt unter Anderem von den unterschiedlichen Bildern ab, die wir uns von den Menschen und ihrem Verhalten gemacht haben.
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2/2 Studies of a few less serious heads by Hogarth from back in 1733.
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
2/2 Studies of a few less serious heads by Hogarth from back in 1733.
Reposted by Ladle Carver
Thanks to a reddit comment (www.reddit.com/r/etymology/...) by SagebrushandSeafoam I learned about 'A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue' (dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/s...) which shows that the term "snark" already was used in 1585.
![A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
About this entry:
First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1584-1585
Snark, n.
※ [? Cf. Jam. snark (1882, Ayr.), mod. Eng. snark (once, 1901) to grumble, fret, later Sc. dial. and mod. Eng. snark, snork to snore.]
※ A pejorative term the precise sense of which is unclear. —a1585 Polwart Flyt. 782 (T).
Sillie snark, lene raik, rak ane aik with the hinging
https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/snark](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l6iae4tlmgtc4xzkeb3oyjrn/bafkreibdsu5awhfaxqxjeosh3fiui4yf3lpixlex3sb62albww7htqvxqa@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Thanks to a reddit comment (www.reddit.com/r/etymology/...) by SagebrushandSeafoam I learned about 'A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue' (dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/s...) which shows that the term "snark" already was used in 1585.