单词 | loonie |
释义 | loonien. Canadian colloquial. The Canadian one-dollar coin introduced in 1987; also, transferred, the Canadian dollar. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a dollar skin1834 rock1837 buck1856 scad1856 simoleon1881 plunk1885 clam1886 slug1887 bone1889 plunker1890 ace1900 sinker1900 Oxford1902 caser1907 iron man1907 man1910 berry1918 fish1920 smacker1920 Oxford scholar1937 loonie1987 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > North American coins > Canadian penny1831 maple leaf1979 loonie1987 1987 Vancouver Sun 8 Jan. 1/1 The master dies of the new $1 coin have been lost in transit and the government has ordered a new design. The new design will be a loon, replacing the original voyageur depiction.] 1987 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 21 Jan. a7/5 Following the typical Canadian bureaucratic foul-up with the new dollar coin, I hereby name it the ‘looney’. 1990 Ottawa Citizen 26 July e4/1 ‘The Canadian dollar is very strong,’ said Berger, who added that the news could carry the loonie over 87 cents U.S. later this week. 1991 R. P. MacIntyre Yuletide Blues v. 32 A loonie slides out of Boog's pocket, a loonie then twenty-five cents. 1994 Outdoor Canada Summer 23/1 Glue a small compass (no bigger than a Loonie) on top of the cap. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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