And the Jews asked the rabbi why and where such a custom came from that forbids walking without a headdress. The rabbi answered:
- The book "Exodus" says: "And Moses went down to the people …".
“But there is nothing about headdress here?”
- Like this?! Is he a little-hearted one to go out without a yarmulke?
What is low-coldness? Where did this concept come from? What does it mean? Who are low-chilled? The concept and its meaning are described in the article.
Meaning of "low chillness"
The word is most often used in colloquial speech. Low-alcoholism is a character trait of a person in which he differs from other people in quirks or strangeness in behavior, which is most often expressed in slowness, weak manifestation of emotions, lethargy, isolation, wildness.
The meaning of the word "low-coldness", etymology
There are several versions of the origin of the concept of a word. One of them says that the word came from Hebrew "maloch", which means "good man", according to another version, the word came from the French "melancholy" and means melancholy, inconspicuous, quiet, not from this person.
Trait
In olden times, it was believed that character is determined by body fluids: mucus (phlegm), bile (chole), blood (sangwa), black bile (melancholy). It is from here that the origin of the names of human temperaments began. The presence of bile determined the explosive nature of choleric. Black bile formed a quiet, inconspicuous person living in his own world - a melancholy. Some philologists associate the origin of "low-chillness" with "melancholy", as the terms have almost the same meanings. But this is only an opinion, one of many.
As a quality of personality, low-coldness is a person’s tendency to differ in quirks and oddities in behavior, a tendency to be a little abnormal, nuts, not from this world.
Often, poor propriety is determined by an assessment method, this is someone’s point of view, someone’s subjective outlook. That is, everything that seems strange, eccentric, abnormal to us, we define as maladaptation.
If a person lives an incomprehensible life for us, is closed, with his own quirks, then he may well receive a rating from us: “Abnormal, malacholny!”
In a society of people, it is customary to give each other ratings, characteristics and hang labels. A respectful, good, decent person does not notice other flaws in others, and if he does, he does not indicate them out loud, but leaves his opinion to himself. He respects everyone, and lack of coolness is for him only a trait of a person’s character. The writer Dmitry Emets wrote that it is necessary to respect other shortcomings in order to treat yours with respect.
A low-alcohol person lives as if in his own world, and feels comfortable in it. Often this concept goes in the neighborhood with crazy and eccentricity.
For example, the writer Swift Jonathan had a principal order, each time the maid entered her office or exited him, she had to close the door. Once she asked for a wedding from his sister, he allowed and even ordered the groom to take her. She ran out of joy and forgot to close the door. Swift ordered to catch her wagon and return the maid. When she returned, the only thing he asked was to close the cabinet door.
The great Russian commander Alexander Suvorov went to bed at 6 o’clock in the evening, woke up at 2 nights, doused himself with cold water and shouted “ku-ka-re-ku”. In addition, he had a few more oddities, he liked to walk in old worn boots, he liked to embarrass high-ranking guests, meeting them in one underwear. He loved to arrange the marriage of his serfs, arranged them in a row in growth, then ordered: “Get together!”, And then personally educated married couples. Despite all the quirks and oddities in his behavior, he was a brilliant commander and commander.
Definition of dictionaries
The explanatory dictionaries give the following definitions of how to understand the word "malacholny".
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In the Big Explanatory Dictionary, the following definitions are given:
1) This is a person who is characterized by strange behavior.
2) Low propriety is an abusive characteristic of a person.
3) These are oddities and quirks in behavior that are expressed in slowness, lethargy.
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Synonym dictionary:
The synonyms of the adjective are the words: crazy, crazy, sick, touched, abnormal, nuts, nutty, weird, out of this world, stuffed, with a fool, a mattress.
The word in modern speech
In modern colloquial speech, this expression is rarely heard, it is mainly used in the south of Russia. The word is not at all simple, it has two ways of writing: malacholny and malholny. Moreover, the first spelling is used much more often.
The word is used in colloquial speech, as the name of a person who has certain oddities, more often used in an abusive context.
The word was also recorded in thieves' speech, where it also means "a man with quirks."
