<Ul> <Li> "420" did not originate as the Los Angeles police or penal code for marijuana use . Police Code 420 is "juvenile disturbance", and Penal Code 420 defines the prevention, hindrance, or obstruction of legal "entry, settlement, or residence" on "any tract of public land" as a misdemeanor . Some LA police codes that do relate to illegal drugs include 10 - 50 ("under influence of drugs"), 966 ("drug deal"), 11300 ("narcotics"), and 23105 ("driver under narcotics"). </Li> <Li> "Adamant": often believed to come from Latin adamare, meaning to love to excess . In fact derived from Greek ἀδάμας, meaning indomitable . There was a further confusion about whether the substance referred to is diamond or lodestone . </Li> <Li> Buck: The use of "buck" to mean "dollar" did not originate from a practice of referring to African slaves as "bucks" (male deer) when trading . "Buck" was originally short for "buckskin", as buckskins were used in trade . </Li> <Li> Butterfly: The word "butterfly" did not originate from "flutterby". It comes from the Middle English word butterflye, which in turn comes from the Old English word butorflēoge . </Li> <Li> Crowbar: A "crowbar" is not so named for its use by Black menial workers . The name comes from the forked end of a crowbar, which resembles a crow's foot . </Li> <Li> Handicap: The word "handicap" did not originate as a metathetic corruption of "cap in hand" in reference to disabled beggars . The word originally referred to the game hand - i' - cap, in which forfeits were placed in a cap . It does reference in the game's rules to another player being at a disadvantage to the other, and efforts to equalize the game with strategy . </Li> <Li> "Hiccough", an alternate spelling still encountered for hiccup, originates in an assumption that the second syllable was originally cough . The word is in fact onomatopoeic in origin . </Li> <Li> "Innocent": often wrongly believed to have the original meaning of "not knowing", as if it came from Latin noscere (to know); in fact it comes from nocere (to harm), so the primary sense is "harmless". </Li> <Li> Isle and Island: The word "isle" is not short for "island", nor is the word "island" an extension of "isle". "Isle" comes ultimately from Latin īnsula, meaning "island"; "island" comes ultimately from Old English īegland, also meaning "island ." Aside from the shared Indo - European identity of their respective languages of origin, these words are unrelated . The spelling island, however, is indeed due to the influence of isle . </Li> <Li> "Marmalade": there is an apocryphal story that Mary, Queen of Scots, ate it when she had a headache, and that the name is derived from her maids' whisper of "Marie est malade" (Mary is ill). In fact it is derived from Portuguese marmelo, meaning quince, and then expanded from quince jam to other fruit preserves . It is found in English - language sources written before Mary was even born . </Li> <Li> Nasty: The term nasty was not derived from the surname of Thomas Nast as a reference to his biting, vitriolic cartoons . The word may be related to the Dutch word nestig, or "dirty". It predates Nast by several centuries, appearing in the most famous sentence of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, that in the state of nature, the life of man is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ." That work was published in 1651, whereas Nast was born in 1840 . </Li> <Li> Picnic: The word "picnic" did not originate as an abbreviation of "pick a nigger", a phrase falsely claimed to have been used by white families at community lynchings in the 19th century . "Picnic" comes from 17th - century French piquenique, which is of uncertain origin . </Li> <Li> "Pumpernickel" is said to have been given the name by a French man (sometimes Napoleon) referring to his horse, Nicole--"Il étoit bon pour Nicole" ("It was good enough for Nicole"), or "C'est une pomme pour Nicole" ("It's an apple for Nicole") or "C'est du pain pour Nicole" ("It's bread for Nicole"). Some dictionaries claim a derivation from the German vernacular Pumpern (fart) and "Nick" (demon or devil), though others disagree . </Li> <Li> "Sincere" does not originate from Latin sine cera, without wax, but from sincerus, true or genuine . </Li> <Li> "Snob" does not originate from Latin sine nobilitate, without nobility . </Li> <Li> "Woman" did not originate from "woven from man," nor did it originate from the word "womb ." It came from the Old English "wifmann," meaning "woman person ." "Mann," the word for "person," eventually came to be used for males specifically . </Li> <Li> "Welsh rarebit" has been claimed to be the original spelling of the savoury dish' Welsh rabbit' . Both forms now have currency, though the form with rabbit is in fact the original . Furthermore, the word' Welsh' in this context was used by the English as a slur, meaning foreign and does not indicate that the dish originated in Wales . </Li> </Ul> <Li> "420" did not originate as the Los Angeles police or penal code for marijuana use . Police Code 420 is "juvenile disturbance", and Penal Code 420 defines the prevention, hindrance, or obstruction of legal "entry, settlement, or residence" on "any tract of public land" as a misdemeanor . Some LA police codes that do relate to illegal drugs include 10 - 50 ("under influence of drugs"), 966 ("drug deal"), 11300 ("narcotics"), and 23105 ("driver under narcotics"). </Li> <Li> "Adamant": often believed to come from Latin adamare, meaning to love to excess . In fact derived from Greek ἀδάμας, meaning indomitable . There was a further confusion about whether the substance referred to is diamond or lodestone . </Li> <Li> Buck: The use of "buck" to mean "dollar" did not originate from a practice of referring to African slaves as "bucks" (male deer) when trading . "Buck" was originally short for "buckskin", as buckskins were used in trade . </Li>

Where did the term take a crap come from