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51Jimmy Hamilton — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Hamilton. James Hamilton (dit Jimmy) était un clarinettiste, saxophoniste ténor et arrangeur de jazz américain né à Dilton en Caroline du Sud en 1917 et mort à Sainte Croix dans les Îles Vierges en 1994 …
52Satie, Erik — orig. Eric Alfred Leslie Satie born May 17, 1866, Honfleur, Calvados, France died July 1, 1925, Paris French composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire (1879–82) but dropped out. From 1888 he played piano at the café Le Chat Noir; he became… …
53flipper — 1. flipper [ flipɶr ] n. m. • 1964; mot angl. amér., de to flip « secouer » ♦ Anglic. Mécanisme placé dans un billard électrique et qui sert à renvoyer la bille vers le haut. Actionner les flippers. Par méton. Ce billard. Jouer au flipper.… …
54manner — n. 1) an arrogant, cavalier, imperious, overbearing; awkward; boorish; businesslike; casual, hit or miss, offhand, relaxed; charming; cloying; coarse, crude, rude, uncouth; courteous, polite; cursory; debonair; flippant; forthcoming; friendly;… …
55tone — n. style, trend 1) to set the tone sound 2) dulcet, sweet; harsh; strident tone(s) manner of speaking that reveals the speaker s feelings 3) an abusive; angry; apologetic; arrogant; businesslike; condescending, patronizing; decisive; emphatic;… …
56wisecrack — I n. flippant remark 1) to make a wisecrack 2) a wisecrack about II v. (colloq.) (L) ( to remark flippantly ) she wisecracked that she could earn more money at home * * * [ waɪzkræk] (colloq.) (L) ( to remark flippantly ) she wisecracked that she …
57wisecrack — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n., slang, crack, quip, witticism, comeback, answer. See wit. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. joke, dig, gibe, flippant remark, quip, retort. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Slang. A flippant or… …
58Insolence — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Undue assumption of superiority. < N PARAG:Insolence >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 insolence insolence Sgm: N 1 haughtiness haughtiness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 arrogance arrogance airs Sgm: N 1 overbearance overbearance …
59flip — {{11}}flip (n.) sailors hot drink usually containing beer, brandy and sugar, 1690s, from FLIP (Cf. flip) (v.); so called from notion of it being whipped up or beaten. {{12}}flip (v.) 1590s (1520s in flip flop), imitative or else a contraction of… …
60flippancy — 1746, from FLIPPANT (Cf. flippant) + CY (Cf. cy) …
