(1) After being widely condemned for his remarks about the rape allegations facing Julian Assange, George Galloway was under fire again at the weekend after calling someone a "window-licker" (a derogatory term for a disabled person) in a conversation on Twitter .
(2) As he stresses every week at the beginning of The Apprentice: "I don't like liars, I don't like cheats, I don't like bullshitters, I don't like schmoozers and I don't like arse-lickers."
(3) Paul Carter (@Juniorc0) wrote: "@georgegalloway just called someone a window licker.
(4) Galloway did apologise for using the word "window-licker" about a critic on Twitter, claiming that he was unaware that it had become a term of abuse of the disabled since he left Scotland , where it had previously been a synonym for "moron".
(5) I was listening to them all thinking: ‘You arse lickers.
(6) Will decent Rangers fans please substitute this windae-licker … " The tweet was attacked as insensitive by fellow Twitter users and @Skipjack451 wrote: "I wonder what the disabled members of your constituency will make of your use of the slur 'window licker'?
Ricker
Definition:
(n.) A stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat.
Example Sentences:
(1) A brief reminder is given of the antagonism between cellular pathology (Virchow) and the pathology of relation (Ricker), as well as a reference to the American paper on the "Systems of material transport in nerve fibers" by Sidney Ochs.
(2) The results are applied to a stochastic two-species Ricker model, and to Chesson's "lottery model with vacant space", to illustrate how the assumptions can be checked in specific models.
(3) Pok Pok PDX on Division Street is chef Andy Ricker’s take on Thai street food, and has spawned branches across the city.
(4) I began to take things seriously then, researched all I could, even corralled Michelin-starred chef Andy Ricker , the US champion of Lanna (northern Thai) food into having coffee with me.