The word for folder has an interesting history. It came into English in the 16th century from the French verb filer, to string on a thread. This relates to storing documents by tying them together with string. It comes from the Latin filum, meaning thread, from which we also get our word filament.
Common misspellings of the word chicken are: 1  chicken in french. 2  chicken in spanish. 3  chicken in german. 4  chicken in italian. 5  chicken in portuguese.
No Spring Chicken. The phrase âNo Spring Chickenâ is usually used in a negative way to describe someone who is no longer young, probably past his young adulthood, and sometimes doesnât realize it and tries to look and act younger than his age. Example of use: âI donât know how old Mike is, but obviously he is no spring chicken.â. The origin of the phrase actually comes from its literal meaning. In the early 1700s, Farmers found that chickens born in the spring brought better prices than 'old' ones that had gone through the winter. When farmers tried to sell the old birds as 'new spring born', buyers complained that they were 'no spring chicken'.