Bowel infections caused by viruses, bacteria and certain parasites frequently cause loose stools. Viral gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the stomach and intestines, is a common cause of episodic diarrhea.
Yule or Yuletide (Yule time) was and is a festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples. Scholars have connected the celebration to the Wild Hunt, the god Odin, and the pagan Anglo-Saxon MÅdraniht. It later underwent Christianized reformulation resulting in the term Christmastide.
A yuppie (/ËjÊpi/ ; short for  young urban professional  or  young upwardly-mobile professional ) is defined by one source as being a young college-educated adult who has a job that pays a lot of money and who lives and works in or near a large city.This acronym first came into use in the early 1980s. A scuppie is a Socially Conscious Upwardly-Mobile Person (the term is not commonly used). 2  A Brazilian playboy: while in first this term had the same usage as in English, from the 1990s to the 2010s it changed its meaning to a local version of yuppie which first appeared in Greater Rio de Janeiro.