单词 | little englander |
释义 | Little Englandern. 1. A Barbadian. Cf. Little England n. 1c. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [noun] > specific islands Jamaican1613 Bermudian1645 Bermudan1659 Barbadian1671 Anguillan1745 Anguillian1745 Guadeloupean1762 Antiguan1778 Grenadian1786 Haitian1805 Trinidadian1806 St Lucian1818 Puerto Rican1823 Dominican1826 Grenadan1826 Barbudian1830 Bajan1832 Bim1833 Little Englander1833 Tobagonian1849 Cuban1850 Virgin Islander1852 Tortolan1863 Martiniquais1890 Martiniquan1891 Vincentian1907 Guadeloupan1908 Barbadian English1911 Trinidadian English1925 Kittitian1945 Bajie1960 Kittian1960 Trini1972 yardie1984 yardie1986 Baje1990 1833 National Standard 1 June 342/2 Mr. Chapman is a thorough Barbadian—a true little Englander in his heart. 1909 Louisiana Planter & Sugar Manufacturer 8 May 301/2 Try to decide whether the big man in Demerara or the small man in Barbados leads the happier life, and the chances are that the judge..will give the cake to the little Englander. 2. Chiefly depreciative. An opponent of an active international policy or role for England (in effect for Britain), originally (now historical) with regard to the British Empire; (now also) spec. an opponent of England's (or Britain's) active involvement in or membership of the European Union (or its predecessors). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > specific principles or policies > supporters of reformist1641 reformer1648 engager1650 All the Virtues1816 Manchester school1846 fair trader1881 Manchestrist1882 Little Englander1889 Manchesterian1897 tariff-reformer1903 Little Englander Liberal1909 Poplarist1925 marketeer1962 Eurosceptic1978 1889 Westm. Rev. Jan. 450 To be..of a national party which is not also the party of the nations, is to be simply ‘a little Englander’, willing to destroy one nation for the sake of another. 1892 Speaker 15 Oct. 456/1 Mr. Gladstone's Ministry..call their opponents ‘little Englanders’. The real little Englanders are those who think the part of this island which they themselves represent has the right to control the English-speaking races. 1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot iii. iv. 192 Stanley was in these days a stop-the-war, pacificist Little Englander, anti-militarist, anti-Chamberlain, anti-Concentration Camp. 1962 Hudson Rev. 15 587 Already there is hardly room on the Continent of Europe for all the..nations, and now that they have begun to roll themselves into one enormous nation,..the feeling in England is that if we don't get in and co-operate we shall simply be buried. There are Little Englanders..who want to keep out. 1975 B. Donoughue Diary 29 May in Downing St. Diary (2005) xv. 393 Joe phoned from Brussels to say that the speech was not what the PM wanted... He is required to be in favour, but he is really a Little Englander. 2008 A. Favell Eurostars & Eurocities iii. 32 The offence to Little Englanders of this particular hole in the ground [sc. the Channel Tunnel] is obvious. Compounds General attributive (in sense 2), as Little Englander Liberal, Little Englander party, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > specific principles or policies > supporters of reformist1641 reformer1648 engager1650 All the Virtues1816 Manchester school1846 fair trader1881 Manchestrist1882 Little Englander1889 Manchesterian1897 tariff-reformer1903 Little Englander Liberal1909 Poplarist1925 marketeer1962 Eurosceptic1978 1896 F. C. Selous Sunshine & Storm Rhodesia 259 Can it be wondered at that..the people of Bulawayo..resented the idea of being handed over to Imperial rule.., in order to please the Little Englander party at home? 1909 Twentieth Cent. Dec. 942 The decline of the influence of the ‘Little Englander’ Liberals over the working classes. 1920 E. T. Raymond Life A. J. Balfour ix. 107 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman..was left to lead the Little Englander rump. 1950 R. A. Brady Crisis in Brit. xiv. 588 It has generally been supposed that British labor..was naturally and inevitably dedicated to the ‘Little Englander’ point of view. 1971 G. R. Searle Quest for Nat. Efficiency iv. 130 Lloyd George and other ‘Little Englander’ radicals were loud in Rosebery's praise. 1990 R. Critchfield Among British i. 33 Mrs. Thatcher's post-1989 contradiction..is how to resolve Britain's role in the post-1992 European Community..with her own Little Englander instincts to cling to the sovereign nation-state. 2013 M. Johnson Militarism & Brit. Left, 1902–1914 iii. 79 Most of these men were committed imperialists, bearing little resemblance to the caricature of the ‘Little Englander’ Liberal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1833 |
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