| 单词 | goon-up! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoon-up! 3. A nickname given by British and U.S. prisoners of war to their German guards in the war of 1939–45. Also transferred. So goon-up!, a warning cry. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > guard > guard of prisoners of war goon1945 1945 G. Morgan Only Ghosts can Live 140 I think it was an Australian who first called the Germans ‘Goons’. 1945 G. Morgan Only Ghosts can Live 140 The cry, ‘Goon up!’ remained in many camps a warning of the approach of the Detaining Power. 1948 Amer. Speech 23 218 The word for German was invariably goon among airmen, American and British alike... It was also used as the adjective part of a compound noun,..e.g. a goon-box was one of the guard towers along the fences around the camp. 1952 E. F. Davies Illyrian Venture xi. 218 At midnight the Goon Postern (German sentry) was astounded to see a large naked form flying three times round the courtyard in a temperature of 25 degrees of frost. 1962 V. Nabokov Pale Fire 55 Morning finds us marching to the wall Under the direction of some goon Political, some uniformed baboon. < as lemmas |
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