Beaner vs False - What's the difference?
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(US, racial slur, offensive) A Mexican.
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, passage=Hey bro I'm a beaner , we ain't good at math. Jeez, dawn 'ju watch TV?}}
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, passage=I'm a beaner , and I'm telling you white people, that's a bullshit number right off the bat!}}
(baseball) A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.
(by extension, informal) Head.
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(US, slang, dated) A superior or admirable person; something excellent.
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* {{quote-book, title=The Sunset Tree, author=Martha Ostenso, pages=106, date=1949, publisher=Dodd, Mead
, passage=Pride, indeed, Esther thought — that was a beaner ! There was more purse than pride in Mayme's repentant heart}}
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun beaner
is (us|racial slur|offensive) a mexican or beaner can be (baseball) a pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.beaner
English
Etymology 1
From . Literally "a person who eats refried beans".Noun
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References
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- Before Chester could compose himself, the Bombshell leaned over and planted a ruby red smackaroo right on top of his bald spot. Chester Cranepool had had a few things hit him on top of his head before, but nothing that felt that good. Looking like a Franciscan monk with a bullseye on his beaner , Chester simply said, “Bless you, my child.”
Usage notes
This sense of a superior or admirable person, from U.S. baseball slang in the 1940s and 1950s, is now almost completely superseded.References
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}