| 释义 |
muddie, n. Austral. colloq. (chiefly Queensland).|ˈmʌdɪ|
Also muddy.
[f. mud n. + -ie, -y6.]
The mud-crab Scylla serrata, eaten as a delicacy.
1953Baker Australia Speaks viii. 183 Muddy, a mudcrab. 1969Telegraph (Brisbane) 5 June 2/5 We've been getting 40 to 50 muddies a week-end—some of them old enough to vote. 1978Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Sat. Mag.) 25 Mar. 26/5 Queensland's renowned mud crab is down, of course, as ‘muddie’. 1986Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 21 Dec. 37/3 (caption) Confronted with snapping claws of big muddie he'd emptied out of bucket into kitchen sink, he yelled to son to grab cricket bat from shed. |