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Ovono

1) A popular book that just isn't good enough.

2) When a popular author brings out a crap book. (often used as 'to come ovono' or 'go onovo')

(derived from 'ovo' and 'no'- egg and no.

1) 'And I said- "Lord, the Harry Potter set are basically ovono!"

2) 'Tony Parsons has came onovo with his new book, The Maggot was Born'

by derangedpoet July 14, 2003

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fair dues

1) Enough respect to you/him...
2) I appreciate what he did/ your point of view.

Sometimes said as 'fair due', it comes from 'fair is due to the comrade'

"So I managed to menage-a-trois, last night" "Fair dues to the bigman!"

by derangedpoet July 14, 2003

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bigman

Ironically, a salutation to someone small in stature...

"Big up to the bigman!"

by derangedpoet July 14, 2003

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1) A language used as vernacular for communication amongst many speakers of different languages, i.e. a creole.
2) An early version of this, a mix of English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and other languages with Italian.
3) (British) The English variant used by many Asian immigrants, mixing English with Indian tongues like Gujarati, Urdu/Hindi, Sinhalese, etc.

1) Swahili is the lingua franca in East Africa. Millions of people who speak indigenous languages also speak it for communication.

by derangedpoet October 9, 2003

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