Words similar to bodily
Example sentences for: bodily
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It comes from somewhere else, from the non-fashion universe of eternal certainties and unbreakable cycles, where bodily sculpture is applied with finality to signal a fixed social and sexual identity.
You might also have him off for TDA (Taking and Driving Away, now replaced by Taking a conveyance ), or for OPD (Outraging Public Decency), IPO (Impersonating a Police Officer), or for the better-known ABH or GBH (assaults occasioning Actual or Grievous Bodily Harm).
News services that drop umlauts might deserve some sympathy; given the isolation of North Americans, the assumption is easily made here that the umlaut is an extraneous character that can be dropped—as accents in French often are when French words are transcribed into English—without doing bodily harm to the word in question.
, in the chapter on “Bodily Effluvia”) where, for example, john, jakes, bog, crapper are said to “tend to the dysphemistic,” whatever that means.
The phrase refers to a bodily overhaul so extensive as to render obsolete all superficial indications of age or identity.