Folks
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- rson
Anyone notice this horrible trend of saying "folks" in pitches?
- inkpink0
trend? everyday vocab in my world.
- ********0
folks; n. people in general
- jaylarson0
better than ya'll
- ********0
- ha, I think of this everytime someone says folks!
DrBombay
- ha, I think of this everytime someone says folks!
- afabrega0
It's awful. I remember thinking it started with George W's administration. Basically, it assumes you're speaking to/about the lowest common denominator. Hate it.
- ukit0
Hey, "folk" you
- ********0
folk
/foʊk/ Show Spelled[fohk] Show IPA
–noun
1.
Usually, folks. ( used with a plural verb ) people in general: Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer.
2.
Often, folks. ( used with a plural verb ) people of a specified class or group: country folk; poor folks.
3.
( used with a plural verb ) people as the carriers of culture, esp. as representing the composite of social mores, customs, forms of behavior, etc., in a society: The folk are the bearers of oral tradition.
4.
folks, Informal .
a.
members of one's family; one's relatives: All his folks come from France.
b.
one's parents: Will your folks let you go?
5.
Archaic . a people or tribe.
–adjective
6.
of or originating among the common people: folk beliefs; a folk hero.
7.
having unknown origins and reflecting the traditional forms of a society: folk culture; folk art.
—Idiom
8.
just folks, Informal . (of persons) simple, unaffected, unsophisticated, or open-hearted people: He enjoyed visiting his grandparents because they were just folks.
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Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE folc; c. OS, ON folk, OHG folk (G Volk )—Synonyms
4. kinfolk, kin, relations, people; clan, tribe.
- ********0
is that the same thing as fucks? thats what i call people when i first start talking to them.
howdy fucks. great to have to here.
- brandelec0
Bithes
- dbloc0
bithes
A misspelling for Bitches. - also - A word meaning cannibal flamingoes eating polar bear flesh.
Clean it up, Bithes!
Bithes is a group of flamingoes doing what class?
- sureshot0
fuck all ya'll Bithes !
thats all folks.
- ifeltdave0
i call my parents my folks.
- dbloc0
Folkert Gorter
- ukit0
Go folk yourself
- ********0
Etymology
The Modern English word folk, derives from Old English folc meaning "common people", "men", "tribe" or "multitude". The Old English noun itself came from Proto-Germanic *fulka which perhaps originally referred to a "host of warriors". Compare Old Norse folk meaning "people" but more so "army" or "detachment", German Gefolge ("host"), and Lithuanian pulkas meaning "crowd". The latter is considered to be an early Lithuanian loanword from Germanic origin, cf. Belarusian полк - połk meaning regiment and German Pulk for a group of persons standing together.
The word became colloquialized (usually in the plural folks) in English in the sense "people", and was considered unelegant by the beginning of the 19th century. It re-entered academic English through the invention of the word folklore in 1846 by the antiquarian William J. Thoms (1803–85) as an Anglo-Saxonism. This word revived folk in a modern sense of "of the common people, whose culture is handed down orally", and opened up a flood of compound formations, e.g. folk art (1921), folk-hero (1899), folk-medicine (1898), folk-tale (1891), folk-song (1847), folk-dance (1912). Folk-music is from 1889; in reference to the branch of modern popular music (associated with Greenwich Village in New York City) here it dates from 1958. It is also regional music.
- boobs0
All music is folk music. I've never seen a mule play no trumpet!
--Louis Armstrong
