An adjective describing any food that is flavored too much. Originally pertained only to extremely sour foods, especially citrus fruits, but now describes a variety of taste sensations including too spicy, too bland or too curried.
"Barry, did you try Aunt Hilda's lemon meringue?"
"Yeah, but you shouldn't, there so damsour again!"
"Yeah, but you shouldn't, there so damsour again!"
by Gary Butmann February 23, 2008
Get the Damsour mug.Someone/something from the city of Damascus, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
A Damascene (as a person) is famous for his pride of his city and his country.
A Damascene can be Muslim, Christian, or Jewish. An Arab, Kurd, Armenien, Circassian...
Most Damascene people are religious. Yet, they are open and nice at the same time.
Damascene textiles, iron, arts and of course dishes are famous and have a global reputation.
A Damascene (as a person) is famous for his pride of his city and his country.
A Damascene can be Muslim, Christian, or Jewish. An Arab, Kurd, Armenien, Circassian...
Most Damascene people are religious. Yet, they are open and nice at the same time.
Damascene textiles, iron, arts and of course dishes are famous and have a global reputation.
There is nothing better than a dinner in a Damascene house with Damascene delicious dishes and Damascene friends!
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Get the Danush mug.A power play that young women make when talking to somebody new. They pretend that they are in trouble to see how you will respond.
"Yo, how did things go with Hannah yesterday?"
"She was damseling me really hard and said she was lost in Wrigleyville with Karen."
"She was damseling me really hard and said she was lost in Wrigleyville with Karen."
by Bruce Hardstone May 31, 2018
Get the damseling mug.A usually beautiful, virginal, virtuous, and hopelessly passive young woman constantly in need of rescue by the dashing hero. She is portrayed as rather asexual and usually a foil for the assertive but dangerously seductive femme fatale.
While the damsel in distress makes appearances in many folk stories dating back to Antiquity and features in a few fairy tales, this passive heroine does not seem to make regular appearances until the Victorian era; the Middle Ages were idealized as a time of pre-industrial innocence and the Victorians projected their ideals of men and women onto their Medieval ancestors; the Industrial Revolution was in full swing and women, displaced from farms and entering the middle class, lost some autonomy over their lives and became more ornamental, more dependent on their husbands.
Damsels in distress are often shown tied to railroad tracks, to sawmill conveyor belts, or offered as sacrifice to a dragon (or King Kong) until her knight in shining armor arrives to save her in the nick of time.
While the damsel in distress makes appearances in many folk stories dating back to Antiquity and features in a few fairy tales, this passive heroine does not seem to make regular appearances until the Victorian era; the Middle Ages were idealized as a time of pre-industrial innocence and the Victorians projected their ideals of men and women onto their Medieval ancestors; the Industrial Revolution was in full swing and women, displaced from farms and entering the middle class, lost some autonomy over their lives and became more ornamental, more dependent on their husbands.
Damsels in distress are often shown tied to railroad tracks, to sawmill conveyor belts, or offered as sacrifice to a dragon (or King Kong) until her knight in shining armor arrives to save her in the nick of time.
A damsel in distress would not have fared well in Medieval Europe. Generally, European women in the Middle Ages were not expected to be these timid shrinking violets; Christina of Markyate (who resisted a forced marriage and followed her dream of becoming a holy woman), Marjorie of Carrick, Christine de Pisan (a proto-feminist of sorts), Margery Kempe (another mystic), and Nicola de la Haye (led her castle against a siege in her 60s) are just a few of examples of women who took the reins in their own lives.
Women of that time and place were in danger of abduction, especially if they were wealthy... but it was preferable to a loveless marriage. The average "knight in shining armor" was a mix of professional assassin and local rapist, so the damsel often arranged to be kidnapped by her preferred suitor or even do the abducting herself:
Marjorie of Carrick (c. 1253-1292) was a countess in her own right, but was married young to an older husband who died in the Crusades in 1271; she was informed of this by her husband's handsome young companion, Robert de Brus. Marjorie, out hunting at the time and far from upset by the news, was so taken by his beauty that she took him back to her castle and held him captive until he agreed to marry her; she must have done something right, because they were married within days. The second of their eleven children was Robert the Bruce himself.
Women of that time and place were in danger of abduction, especially if they were wealthy... but it was preferable to a loveless marriage. The average "knight in shining armor" was a mix of professional assassin and local rapist, so the damsel often arranged to be kidnapped by her preferred suitor or even do the abducting herself:
Marjorie of Carrick (c. 1253-1292) was a countess in her own right, but was married young to an older husband who died in the Crusades in 1271; she was informed of this by her husband's handsome young companion, Robert de Brus. Marjorie, out hunting at the time and far from upset by the news, was so taken by his beauty that she took him back to her castle and held him captive until he agreed to marry her; she must have done something right, because they were married within days. The second of their eleven children was Robert the Bruce himself.
by Lorelili October 10, 2011
Get the damsel in distress mug.Damesha she a beautiful she is so loyal amazing she THICK she could be a little jealousy sometimes she SMART she gonna have and amazing future, if someone talks about her friends that when she BURNS up she keeps here eyes on her grades she SHY, ALL THE BOYS ARE ALL OVER HER
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