A fork of Rural Dictionary
Greek goddess of the hunt. She was protector of all wild things, all creature young(including humans), and has some part in childbirth(she helped her mother, Leto, deliver her twin brother Apollo). She was a virgin goddess, and required all her female followers to be the same. She WAS NOT the goddess of the moon. This mistaken idea is caused by her identification with the Roman goddess Diana. The Greek goddess of the moon was Selene.
Artemis cared not for love or romance, but only the chase.
The most dangerous and deadly man -eating woman in the vicinity. She snatches up guys and uses them up like tissue paper. Then she moves on to another. Sexually insatiable, she adds a new victim to her tally every few days. Beware! The twatacabra is bad news!
Ted hasn't been the same since that twatacabra Nancy got through with him.
The hero of the Leatherstocking Tales by James F. Cooper. Real name Nathaniel Bumppo. Also the nickname of Captain B.F.Peirce of MASH
Hawkeye was the greatest shot in the Colonies.
In eighteenth and nineteenth century England, it was considered a great offense to say "By God". Instead, men would say "BY Jove". Jove is an alternative name for the Roman god Jupiter. By saying "By Jove!", they could be saying "By God!", without committing a social offense.
"By Jove, Tom! William has a magnificent carriage!"