单词 | mine-boy |
释义 | > as lemmasmine-boy mine-boy n. South African (now offensive) a black African mineworker. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > native African mine-boy1907 1907 J. P. Fitzpatrick Jock of Bushveld (1909) 215 Presently a long string of about fifty time-expired mine-boys came in sight. 1945 P. H. Abrahams Song of City 73 The tom-tom beat of the Maraba..danced away the seething bitterness that is attendant with repression... On the morrow the houseboy would be a good..houseboy!.. And the mine-boy. 1995 Guardian 13 Jan. i. 24/7 Joe Slovo..who, years before he returned in glory..had entertained my family with a spirited display of mineboy dancing in our house in Oxford. < as lemmas |
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