| 释义 |
imshi Services' slang.|ˈɪmʃɪ|
Also imshee, imshy.
[Local Arabic (Berggren).]
Be off, go away. Also as v.
1916Anzac Book 135/2 And the King-of-all-the-Huns said, ‘It is enough, Imshee!’ Note, Imshee is the Arabic for ‘go away’. The Australasian Corps, which had so far employed it only to street hawkers in Cairo, used this war⁓cry on April 25. Ibid. 136/1 So they imsheed. 1919Athenæum 28 July 664/2 ‘Imshy’, go away (generally corrupted into something like ‘hampshire’). 1942Word Study Dec. 6/2 ‘Imshi,’ said the drongo; ‘you're shikkered!’ 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai iv. 70 Now, imshee⁓allah! |