| 释义 |
mungaree slang.|mənˈdʒɑːrɪ|
Also mungaree, mungare(er, munjari, † numgare.
[ad. It. mangiare to eat.]
Food.
1861H. Mayhew London Labour III. 139/2 We [sc. strolling actors] call breakfast, dinner, tea, supper, all of them ‘numgare’. 1889Answers 11 May 374 Broken meat and scraps of bread (‘Bull and Munjari’ they are called). 1942C. Barrett On Wallaby iv. 64 Chameleons..are insectivorous and get their own mungaree (food). 1944L. Glassop We were Rats iv. xlvi. 252 Wailed the [Cairene] woman. ‘Gibbit bucksheesh. Gibbit mungareer.’ |