| 单词 | leggo beast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasleggo beast slang (originally Jamaican). Out of control, wild. Chiefly in leggo beast (also lagobis) (derogatory): an animal that has got loose or gone wild; a person likened to this; (also) a sexually promiscuous person, esp. a woman. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > in action, conduct, or habit freec1300 unbridledc1374 riotous?1456 liberala1500 unrestrained1531 libertine1593 relaxed1623 long-waisted1647 self-abandoning1817 laissez-aller1818 self-abandoned1833 uninhibited1880 un-Victorian1908 leggo1943 zizzy1966 loose1968 1943 in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1967) 272/2 Leggo, unkept. 1943 in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1967) 273/1 Leggo beast, one that is under no control. 1967 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 14 Dec. 3/3 She complained:—‘'Im like leggo beas' wid de gals when me can't watch 'im.’ 1999 M. Cezair-Thompson True Hist. Paradise xxxi. 158 You can tell a leggo-beast from a decent girl..by how she dresses. 2014 M. Burke Team Seven ii. 10 Look 'pon the broad-back black man, he a'go kill him. Look how him scream up the place like a'leggo beast. < as lemmas |
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