Blog is a Mix Tape Vox 2008-01-29T03:39:04Z Jason http://negroplease.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c10e0f6f1fd3b4/tags/words/ rumor has it, a blogger once lived here. speakeasy: big-ups to big-up tag:vox.com,2008-01-29:asset-6a00c10e0f6f1fd3b400e398d733f30004 2008-01-29T01:38:17Z 2008-01-29T03:39:04Z Jason http://negroplease.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Note that Jaime Pressly said that “Ugly Betty” was “big-upping the ugly fat girl,” not that the show was “bigging up the ugly fat girl” (or “bigging the ugly fat girl up“). So we find that big-up is being treated as a single entity that can be in...

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]]> WOTD: Winnow tag:vox.com,2007-02-11:asset-6a00c10e0f6f1fd3b400d414207cdd3c7f 2007-02-11T20:27:41Z 2007-02-11T20:30:15Z Jason http://negroplease.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Definitions of winnow on the Web: separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field" blow on; "The wind was winnowing her hair"; "the wind winnowed the grass" cull out: select desirable part...

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