单词 | mosquito state |
释义 | > as lemmasMosquito State Mosquito State n. U.S. now rare (a nickname for) the State of New Jersey. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > New Jersey Garden State1852 Mosquito State1923 1923 World Almanac (N.Y.) 422 Nicknames of the States... N.J. ‘Jersey Blues’, ‘Garden’, ‘New Spain’, ‘Mosquito’. 1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 601 In the 80s and 90s New Jersey was known almost universally as the Mosquito State, mainly because of the swarms of the insects that beset New York City from the Jersey Marshes. < as lemmas |
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