Maria vs Shacky - What's the difference?
maria | shacky |
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* 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed , The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 211:
* 1776 , Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:
* 1957 , Arthur Laurents/Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein: ''West Side Story: Maria ( a song):
A Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh provinces in India.
run-down, like a shack
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As a proper noun maria
is .As an adjective shacky is
run-down, like a shack.maria
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) Maria, from (etyl) . A Latinate variant of the vernacular English (l).Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Yet herein they come short of the monks and friars in their conceits of the word Maria ; they have so tossed it and turned it, so anagrammatized and transposed it, that never were five poor letters so worried since time did put them into the alphabet.
- By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria .
- I've just kissed a girl named Maria', / And suddenly I found how wonderful a sound can be! / ' Maria ! Say it loud and there's music playing - / Say it soft and it's almost like praying
Etymology 2
Proper noun
(Maria language) (en proper noun)Derived terms
* AbujmariaExternal links
*Etymology 3
External links
*shacky
English
Adjective
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