单词 | dark-skin |
释义 | dark-skinn.adj. Usually derogatory and offensive. A. n. A black or dark-skinned person; spec. (Australian) a person of Australian Aboriginal origin or descent. (obsolete). ΚΠ 1845 Sydney Morning Herald 8 Apr. We have had another affair with the blacks, close to the township... Lieutenant Cooper..immediately despatched a sergeant and a file of men from his detachment to the scene of the outrage, but before they could reach the spot the dark-skins were off. 1852 Morning Post 23 Feb. 4/4 If these darkskins are intelligent in nought else, they evince extraordinary aptitude for graduation in the art of warfare. 1888 D. C. F. Moodie Hist. Battles & Adventures Brit., Boers, & Zulus Southern Afr. xxix. 261 One of the Gatling guns, which had again attained a good position, played havoc wherever a group of darkskins was to be seen. 2017 @GithakaKGithaka 17 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 17 July 2019) You wouldn't approve of your friends girl because she's a darkskin? Boy you gotta be about something. B. adj. Designating a person with black or dark skin. ΚΠ 1859 Athenæum 16 Apr. 521/3 He reproduces capitally the lank, dark-skin people wrapped in their white linen. 1952 E. R. Haynes Black Boy of Atlanta 149 In Rome, he visited the Catacombs in company with a dark skin man who spoke French, and was Secretary to the Vatican at St. Peters. 2019 @AmariPatriceG 12 July in twitter.com (accessed 17 July 2019) I just seen a dark skin girl with short blonde hair and is just like to say black women of any and all shades really do pull of any color. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.adj.1845 |
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