| 释义 |
‖ toubab, n. Freq. derog.|ˈtuːbɑːb|
Also toubob.
[ad. F. toubabe, f. Wolof tubaab European.]
In Central and West Africa: a white (or Westernized) person, a European; such people considered collect.
[1911E. Hopkinson Vocab. Mandingo Lang. 15/1 European..Tubàbo, this name is also nowadays applied to any civilised native, to anyone, in fact, who wears European trousers.] 1976A. Haley Roots (1977) lxxxv. 437 She had never understood why her pappy had always felt so bitter against the world of white people—‘toubob’ was his word for them. 1978J. Updike Coup (1979) ii. 45 In the season the toubabs call fall, Colonel Ellelloû returned to Istiqlal. 1981N.Y. Times 31 May x. 5/1 Occasionally a tiny child screamed in fright at the sight of us, and we got used to children calling out ‘toubab, toubab’—white man. 1990Ibid. 16 Sept. vii. 22/1 We're driven to join Evan in wondering not only if he's a ‘toubob’..but if he simply is at all. |