| 释义 |
napoo, int., a., and v. colloq.|nɑːˈpuː|
Also na poo, napooh.
[Corruption of F. (il n'y e)n a plus there is no more.]
a. int. Finished; gone; done for.
b. adj. Finished; good for nothing; dead.
c. v. trans. To finish, kill, or destroy.
1915‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand 302 You say ‘Na pooh!’ when you push your plate away after dinner... ‘Poor Bill got na-poohed by a rifle-grenade yesterday.’ 1917W. J. Locke Red Planet xvi. 194 Instinctively I stretched out my hand. He laughed. ‘Napoo. You must take it as gripped.’ 1919J. B. Morton Barber of Putney xv. 253 ‘Can't do nothing,’ said Curly, ‘'e's napoo.’ Ibid. xviii. 301 Even if they themselves were na-pooed, they'd hate to think of the lousy Boche living in their home. 1925N. Venner Imperfect Impostor i. 6 If you haven't got a job to do, you're a washout. You might as well be napood right off. 1927W. Deeping Kitty xvi. 205 A man's phrase—a war-phrase—seemed to trickle into his head. Everything was na poo, a wash-out. His marriage—. 1936F. Clune Roaming round Darling vi. 52 All the boys about here..have looked for money in the gullies, and the only thing they ever come across was a rum-keg—empty—‘Napoo’, like the Diggers used to say! 1943J. B. Priestley Daylight on Saturday xxix. 228 You're as good as dead—just waitin' to stiffen. Fini—napoo! 1973L. Meynell Thirteen Trumpeters v. 81 Prudence..fell down dead in the croupier's bag. Fini. Napoo. |