英语词汇“fuzzy wuzzy angel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel n. Australian (now chiefly historical) (a nickname for) an indigenous person from Papua New Guinea acting as a carrier, stretcher-bearer, scout, etc., for Australian forces in New Guinea during the Second World War (1939–45); chiefly in plural; cf. sense A. 3.The phrase is first recorded in association with a poem by Australian serviceman Bert Beros (see quot. 1942); although the exact phrase does not appear in the text (but cf. quot. 1942 at sense B. 1a), the poem was widely reprinted under the title Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, helping to establish the heroic reputation of the Papua New Guinean stretcher-bearers and making them the object of widespread admiration in Australia.Despite the offensive and derogatory connotations of fuzzy wuzzy in general use (cf. sense A. 2), the term fuzzy wuzzy angel in this context is not typically regarded as offensive in Australian usage.

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1942 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 31 Oct. 4/3 The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels of Owen Stanley Track. Tribute to the devotion and the endurance of the ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels’ of New Guinea—the native carriers on the jungle track of the Owen Stanley Range—is paid by an Australian soldier in the following lines.

1944 G. Hamlyn-Harris Through Mud & Blood 63 The ‘fuzzy-wuzzy angels’ come over bearing the stretchers on which sufferers are lying between life and death.

1951 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 27 Dec. 11/3 During the Pacific war he was a ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel’—one of the natives who helped wounded Australian soldiers.

1977 M. Tucker If everyone Cared 161 My husband..was..sent to Papua-New Guinea... His praise for the ‘fuzzy-wuzzy angels’ was great.

2009 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 29 Apr. 14 The medallions would recognise service and sacrifice, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said yesterday... ‘All of us in Australia know full well the enormous support, practical support and friendship extended to Australian Diggers by the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels’.

单词	fuzzy wuzzy angel
释义	> as lemmas Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel n. Australian (now chiefly historical) (a nickname for) an indigenous person from Papua New Guinea acting as a carrier, stretcher-bearer, scout, etc., for Australian forces in New Guinea during the Second World War (1939–45); chiefly in plural; cf. sense A. 3.The phrase is first recorded in association with a poem by Australian serviceman Bert Beros (see quot. 1942); although the exact phrase does not appear in the text (but cf. quot. 1942 at sense B. 1a), the poem was widely reprinted under the title Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, helping to establish the heroic reputation of the Papua New Guinean stretcher-bearers and making them the object of widespread admiration in Australia.Despite the offensive and derogatory connotations of fuzzy wuzzy in general use (cf. sense A. 2), the term fuzzy wuzzy angel in this context is not typically regarded as offensive in Australian usage. ΚΠ 1942 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 31 Oct. 4/3 The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels of Owen Stanley Track. Tribute to the devotion and the endurance of the ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels’ of New Guinea—the native carriers on the jungle track of the Owen Stanley Range—is paid by an Australian soldier in the following lines. 1944 G. Hamlyn-Harris Through Mud & Blood 63 The ‘fuzzy-wuzzy angels’ come over bearing the stretchers on which sufferers are lying between life and death. 1951 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 27 Dec. 11/3 During the Pacific war he was a ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel’—one of the natives who helped wounded Australian soldiers. 1977 M. Tucker If everyone Cared 161 My husband..was..sent to Papua-New Guinea... His praise for the ‘fuzzy-wuzzy angels’ was great. 2009 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 29 Apr. 14 The medallions would recognise service and sacrifice, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said yesterday... ‘All of us in Australia know full well the enormous support, practical support and friendship extended to Australian Diggers by the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels’. extracted from fuzzy-wuzzyn.adj. < as lemmas
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