| 释义 |
wino slang (orig. U.S.).|ˈwaɪnəʊ|
[f. wine n.1 + -o2.]
An habitual drinker of cheap wine; an alcoholic or drunkard, esp. one who is destitute.
1915World (N.Y.) Mag. 9 May 14/3 Wineoe, a wine bum; known on the Pacific Coast, especially in California. 1926J. Black You can't Win xii. 153 The wine dumps, where wine bums or ‘winos’ hung out. 1946[see juiced a. 2]. 1957J. Kerouac On Road i. i. 9 Working..without pause eight hours a night..in greasy wino pants with a frayed fur-lined jacket and beat shoes that flap. 1958Times 24 Nov. p. viii/5 In fact, Canadians have reserved the term ‘wino’ for the most reprehensible of their drinkers. 1961Guardian 28 Feb. 8/7 A conglomeration of hop⁓heads, winos, overworked policemen. 1967Sunday Truth (Austral.) 16 July 28/4 To save gas she washes in public toilets, and if she feels like a drink she has a swig from a wino's bottle at South Brisbane. 1973‘J. Marks’ Mick Jagger (1974) 106 That sonuvabitch Dean Martin..that lousy wino wop! 1979Evening Standard 2 Mar. 19/4, I am in sympathy with the plea by Mrs A. L. Hughes for the survival of buskers, but feel her attack on ‘winos’ is both misdirected and lacking in human understanding. 1981M. Leitch Silver's City xii. 103 He saw the winos watching him out of bleary eyes as they huddled on their benches passing their brown bottles to and fro. |