| 释义 |
pig Latin
Also pig latin.
[f. pig n.1 + Latin n.]
An invented language formed by systematic distortion of the source language; spec. one in which the initial consonant or consonant cluster of each word is transferred to the end of that word and a vocalic syllable (usually |eɪ|) added. Also transf. and attrib.
1937R. Chandler in Dime Detective Mag. Nov. 50/1 ‘Big white father say come now.’.. ‘Don't give me any more of that pig Latin.’ 1937E. Lyons Assignment in Utopia (1938) iii. xii. 402 Ideological hair-splitting and proletarian pig-Latin. 1938F. Scott Fitzgerald Let. Feb. (1964) 22 But when anything, Latin or pig latin, was ever put up to me..I could always rise to meet that. 1944[see jive n. 3]. 1956B. Cleary Fifteen (1962) i. 16 Utpay atthay ownday..the boy was saying, ‘Put that down,’ in pig Latin. 1959‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene v. 89 The whites, whose slang name, ofays—from the pig latin for ‘foe’—sufficiently indicates the tension between the races. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xiv. 321 ‘Pig Latin’..thus: ‘Unejay ithsmay isay igpay’ (June Smith is a pig)..has been spoken by children since before the First World War. 1960C. Geertz in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 294 A kind of ‘pig-latin’ form in the higher term involving..various forms of medial or final nasalization. 1965Language XLI. 219 Pig Latin would have infixes where English has suffixes. 1978R. Moore Big Paddle i. 7 ‘Fee-a-zuck yee-a-zoo, I'm wee-a-zith ee-a-zit!’ Cliff remembered his father's warning about obscenities, but in carney pig-latin it didn't sound too bad. |