Definitions
Etymologies
- From Arabic بِنْت (bínt, "girl, daughter"), used to denote a patronym. (Wiktionary)
- Arabic, daughter; see bn in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Ellison is proud of his friends, who tend to be important people and in part because they are important people, which is so horrifying a sentiment that I would have wept had I been in my own house instead of 'bint's.”
“They were received by Major Craufurd as a stately omda, and by the second in command as a "bint" with head-dress, yasmak gown and beribboned pyjama trousers.”
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
“McLoughlin first fell under the "spell of far Arabia" when he noticed his father using exotic words such as "bint," "shufti" and "yallah" - brought home from Egypt and the western desert in the second world war.”
“Some bloggers are writing about the experience. bint battuta (Bahrain), who is undertaking the project of reading the Qur'an in Arabic during Ramadan, writes her first post on the experience:”
“Qatar's Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned a.k.a. Sheikha Mozah is on a State visit to the UK with her husband and even on-the-go she looks nothing short of amazing.”
The Huffington Post: Sheikha Mozah Brings Her Chic To England (PHOTOS)
“Qatar's Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned a.k.a. Sheikha Mozah is on a State visit to the UK with her husband and even on-the-go ...”
The Huffington Post: Sheikha Mozah Brings Her Chic To England (PHOTOS)
“Following the prophet's footsteps, the second caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab entrusted Shifa' bint 'AbdAllah with the sensitive post of supervisor whose duties required ensuring that the busy market of Medina was free of corruption.”
The Huffington Post: Fahad Faruqui: The Rights Of Women In Saudi Arabia
“A'isha bint Abi Bakr married the Prophet Muhammad when she was nine years old -- too young to consent even had she been asked, which she was not.”
The Huffington Post: Sherry Jones: From Child Bride to Warrior Woman: A'isha bint Abi Bakr
“Prince Salman, believed to be 76, is one of the 19 surviving sons of Ibn Saud and is also one of the seven sons born to the former king's favorite wife, Hassa bint Ahmed al-Sudairi.”
The Wall Street Journal: Saudi King Names Prince Salman Defense Minister
“Mr. Dolman will work on cultural initiatives and report to chairwoman Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the daughter of the Qatari emir who collects Islamic and contemporary art.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bint’.
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 457 more... -
Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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Copeaux of Random Palavery
More randomly selected words to add to my various lists of "Random Palavery". "Copeaux" in the sense of bits, bobs, chips, fragments, pieces. Don't ask why my Random Palavery lists consist of 151...
deshoot, land cress, american cress, bank cress, belle isle cress, bermuda cress, early yellowrocket, early wintercress, scurvy cress, locust valley loc..., massively multipl..., local fluff and 139 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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Ladies' Night
girl, lady, madame, miss, missy, woman, dame, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, grandmother and 50 more...
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doublej's Words
tuesday, bender, bint, alacrity, shimmy, spank, adroit, increment, veritas, subjugate, fiddle, calico and 4 more...
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wot's all this, then?
Britishisms and Anglophilia - Mencken has a great, if dated, list of comparisons between the British and American words here.
aluminium, gobsmacked, queue, lift, bin, rubbish, navvy, ironmonger, treacle, parcel, constable, monkey-nut and 45 more...
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osmos's Words
disperse, boon, sleight, feeble, nubile, cuba, mañana, taut, conifer, econophysics, bint, foliage and 1 more...
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if you don't have anything nice to say
animosity, twit, fury, scorn, intrusive, abomination, affront, aggressive, antisocial, apalling, armada, avaricious and 85 more...
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subdermal irritants
ointment, flummox, kinnikinnick, lozenge, blabbermouth, blurb, blurb, lollies, fizzy drink, fizzy drink, yawning, suck it and 41 more...
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amusing insults
Words that you can use to insult people. The best was when I called my (then) bf a crumb bum (I was kidding!) and he was genuinely insulted! How the hell anyone could take that seriously, I do not ...
twitterpated, insipid, prat, twit, brat, twerp, flibbertigibbet, milquetoast, lollygagger, slubberdegullion, curmudgeon, clodhopper and 63 more...
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Insults to Confuse Enemies
AM NOT! Wait, what?
rube, agelast, beldam, blaguer, chadband, daftsack, drazel, jollux, sycophant, trypall, hagborn, bescumbered and 7 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bint.
hernesheir A binturong. Jan 16, 2010
john From the Wiktionary: "(British, pejorative) (also Digger slang) Woman, girl." Jul 20, 2009
madmouth cf. beasel Jul 20, 2009
eloriane Also derogatory-- "That stupid bint broke my phone," or "Get me my beer, you lazy bint."
May have racist connotations, given its innocuous translation in the original Arabic but insulting meaning in English. Jun 26, 2009
uselessness Are they of the moistened variety? Dec 12, 2007
bilby "So stop shouting. I'll give you one more drink, and then we visit your rooms in Olympia. All types of attractive bints in Olympia." - 'Lanark', Alasdair Gray. Dec 12, 2007