The beginning of something. The origin, start, source.
Castrate, expurgate, to render effiminent. To remove the (male) genitals from.
He was mentally emasculated by the harsh tone in her voice.
A line for waiting.
You are in queue.
A sly, mysterious, and/or deceitful person / thing
To steal or cheat something from someone
Soft Muddy Ground; A difficult situation.
We're in quite a quagmire, now.
An icon which represents a user in a virtual reality/Internet setting, currently attempted with varying success. The term is adopted from Neal Stephenson; another word used for the same concept is Rudy Rucker's term "tuxedo."
First used from an Internet perspective in 1992 in SNOW CRASH, by Neal Stephenson, in one of those self-fulfilling SF prophecies. Stephenson got the name from the Hindu concept of avatars, which are the personification of various deities or entities.
