| 单词 | jimmy grant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJimmy Grant 1. In full, Jimmy Grant. Rhyming slang for immigrant or emigrant. Australian, New Zealand, and South African. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [noun] migrator1767 Jimmy1845 trekker1851 rusher1856 overlander1857 migrant1864 migrationist1887 trekkie1888 in-migrant1942 1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in N.Z. I. xi. 337 The profound contempt which the whaler expresses for the ‘lubber of a jimmy-grant’, as he calls the emigrant. 1850 McLean Papers VIII. 177 (MS.) I consider Davy has done a foolish thing in selling his farm... I am glad it has not as usual fallen into the hands of ‘Jimmies’, usurpers of the soil. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. Geoffry Hamlyn II. ix. 154 ‘What are these men that we are going to see?’ ‘Why one,’ said Lee, ‘is a young Jimmy (I beg your pardon, sir, an emigrant), the other two are old prisoners.’ 1867 Cassell's Mag. 2 440/2 I never wanted to leave England... I wasn't like one of these Jemmy Grants. 1878 A. Aylward Transvaal of To-day xi. 216 I was a raw emigrant, and still what Natalians call a ‘Jimmy’. 1922 Daily Mail 11 Dec. 8 With his wife and child he had just come over as a ‘Jimmie-grant’. 1948 F. Irvine-Smith Streets of my City ii. 32 At the close of 1840, there were 2,500 settlers, or in whaler parlance, ‘Jimmy Grants’, upon its shores. < as lemmas |
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