| 释义 |
py korry, int. N.Z. slang.|paɪ ˈkɒrɪ|
[Maori corruption of by golly.]
= by golly s.v. golly int.
1938R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 32 ‘Py korry, that right!’ Wi admitted to himself. 1941Baker N.Z. Slang ix. 71 There is..not much to distinguish the authenticity of an expression like py korry! (by God) from one like rekureihana (regulation) except that the former is colloquial. 1943J. A. W. Bennett in Amer. Speech XVIII. 94 The Maori treatment of certain English words is conventionally indicated by such spellings as plurry and py korry for ‘bloody’ and ‘by golly’. 1961J. Reid Kiwi Laughs 12, I have steered clear in this selection of the ‘Py korry, Hori’ type of alleged Maori humour. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. Austral. & N.Z. x. 200 Maori English interlarded with plurry and sentences like ‘Py korry, that the nice baby, eh?’ belongs to the language of journalists rather than the language of Maoris. |