| 释义 |
‖ ganja|ˈgændʒə|
Also 9, ganjah, gunja; ganga.
[Hindi gānjhā.]
A preparation of Indian hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety indica), strongly intoxicating and narcotic.
1800Wellington Suppl. Desp. (1858) II. 162 No manner of duties or customs was allowed to be exacted from any article brought into camp, excepting country-arrack, opium, ganja, or bhang, and toddy. 1826Hockley Pandurang Hari III. xii. 345 They produced their ganga and opium, and began to smoke. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 345 They smoke tobacco, as also ganjah (Cannabis Indica), to a great extent. 1886in Yule Hobson-Jobson, Gunja. 1892Times 18 Nov. 3/6 Ganja is an excitant of the most powerful description leading to violent crime. 1957C. MacInnes City of Spades i. xii. 98 Many good men..have lived inside penitentiaries on account of that goddamned ganga. 1959A. Salkey Quality of Violence viii. 117 He..poured out some ganga powder and started to fix the powder..along a section of a dry banana leaf. Ibid. 118 If you want to smoke the ganga, at least you could offer me some, too. |