单词 | homie |
释义 | homien. 1. New Zealand colloquial (frequently derogatory). An immigrant (usually a recent one) to New Zealand from Britain; any English (or British) person. Cf. Pommy n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England EnglishmaneOE EnglishOE startc1438 Southron1488 Englander1610 knife-man1643 Englisher1652 southern1721 John Bull1772 Saxon1810 Sassenach1815 rosbif1826 Goddam1830 Angrezi1866 Angrez1877 Percy1916 Limey1918 woodbine1918 homie1926 kipper1946 1926 A. R. D. Fairburn Let. (1981) 15 He is a ‘homey’ who came out to Australia, buggered up a grocer's shop, and came on to Norfolk. 1927 J. Devanny Old Savage 170 The crowd at the house were mostly ‘homies’. 1939 J. Mulgan Man Alone 28 That Saturday night I met you and our homey here. 1953 M. C. Scott Breakfast at Six viii. 67 These Homies with money, they stick together. 1970 D. M. Davin Not here, not Now iv. i. 217 An English accent. How hard it was to remember that it was as natural to a homey as your own accent was to you. 1993 K. Sinclair Halfway Round Harbour 101 ‘Homies’, as my parents called ‘Poms’, were extremely unpopular at No. 33. 2002 F. Weldon Auto da Fay (2003) 44 She had insulted her hosts: she was an ingrate, the worst kind of homie. She put on airs: she thought herself too good for New Zealand. 2. slang (originally and chiefly in African-American use; also among Hispanic Americans). A person from one's home town or neighbourhood; a member of one's peer group or gang; a homeboy or homegirl. In later use also: a member of the hip-hop subculture. Also as a form of address.Since the early 1980s the term has become particularly strongly associated with the hip-hop subculture in the United States and the United Kingdom. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > fellow townsman concitizen1428 co-citizen1488 comburgess1517 fellow citizen1550 townsman1562 conscive1578 town's bairn?1591 comburgher1605 townsfolk1614 townschild1621 city mana1661 townsboy1699 town folk1805 townie1824 townsfellow1830 homeboy1861 homie1929 homes1971 1929 Pittsburgh Courier 25 June ii. 5/6 Pittsburghers love basketball—I believe in my ‘homies’, and if intensely interesting tilts are arranged we believe they'll turn out. 1937 N.Y. Amsterdam News 25 Sept. 10/1 Hello homies! And g'bye now, students! 1976 R. E. Chinn Dig Nigger Up 60 Now and then I would see and talk to a homie. 1991 Source Dec. 27/1 I still have all the people around me that I've been around since the beginning. I'm proud to still have my original homeys' camaraderie and respect. 1993 Picture (Sydney) 21 July 5/2 Most Homies have that natural girl-next-door look which most guys like. 2001 Tucson Weekly 28 June 20 Carlos has some homies who..resent what they see as the unacceptable whitification of their ése. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1926 |
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