| 释义 |
bullamacow|ˈbʊləməkaʊ|
Also bulli-.
[Fiji combination of bull and cow.]
a. Cattle.
b. Corned beef; bully beef.
1887W. B. Churchward My Consulate in Samoa xxiii. 277 ‘Bulli-ma-cou’, applicable both to the meat and the animal... On the first animals being landed the natives..were told that the beasts they saw before them were a bull and a cow; so combining the two English words they made one of their own. 1902Westm. Gaz. 30 July 2/1 Their supper of rice and bullmacow [sic]. 1925Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 87/2 If they wanted bullamacow..he would readily provide that food. 1927Observer 6 Feb. 19/5 The Fijians had no words for bull or cow and now have only one portmanteau word, ‘bulumacau’. 1952A. Grimble Pattern of Islands 80 We never entertained one whose face brightened perceptibly when bullimacow and beetroot were placed before him. |