| 单词 | comboman |
| 释义 | > as lemmascomboman 2. Australian. A white man who lives with an Australian Aboriginal woman. Also comboman. ΚΠ 1926 K. S. Prichard Working Bullocks v. 47 Combo's what they call a man tracks round with a gin in the nor'~west. 1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 May 377/3 ‘Comboman’ is the name given in Central Australia to a white man who associates with aboriginal women. 1939 X. Herbert Capricornia (new ed.) ii. 13 They considered the men who sought the love of lubras—such men were called Comboes—unspeakably low. 1944 W. E. Harney Taboo (ed. 2) 59 Detribalized—the word makes me sick... Perhaps it is because I am an old ‘combo’, a man whose sympathy for these people goes down deeper than the paltry money that can be gained from their toil. < as lemmas |
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