| 单词 | half horse and half alligator |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf horse and half alligator Formerly used in the phr. half horse and half alligator (see quots.). Usu. attrib. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of New Englander1637 bayman1641 New English1647 Novangle1650 Novanglian1752 Yankee1765 cracker1766 Yank?1778 bushwhacker1809 tuckahoe1816 southerner1817 Yengees1819 muskrat1823 blue belly1827 half horse and half alligator1828 Southron1828 northerner1831 westerner1835 Northman1836 Easterner1838 Far-Wester1843 southwesterner1845 western1846 sand-hiller1848 Vineyarder1851 mountain boomer1859 Far Westerner1862 blue-nosed Yankee1866 Appalachian1888 sloper1892 Ozarkian1893 rebel1895 reb1897 Middle Westerner1899 hillbilly1900 Midwesterner1916 Ozarker1920 Geechee1926 Middle American1944 upstater1944 Mid-American1959 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. ii. 85 The back-wood-men of Kentucky are styled half man, half horse and half alligator, by the settlers on the Mississippi.] 1828 J. Hall Lett. from West 47 Eight or ten of those ‘half-horse and half-alligator’ gentry, commonly called Ohio boatmen. 1847 T. B. Thorpe Big Bear of Arkansas 14 The half horse and half alligator species of men, who are peculiar to ‘Old Mississippi’. 1860 Oregon Argus 13 Oct. These half horse and half alligator sort of politicians are becoming a stench in the nostrils of the American people. 1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 241 More than once a ‘half-horse and half-alligator’ possessed accurate information on politics and government. < as lemmas |
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