never-never landn.

Brit.

/nɛvəˈnɛvə ˌland/, U.S.

/ˌnɛvərˈnɛvər ˌlænd/, Australian English

/nevəˈnevə ˌlænd/

Forms: also with capital initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: never-never adj., land n.¹

Etymology: < never-never adj. + land n.¹ With sense 1 compare earlier Never-Never Country n. at never-never n. and adj. Compounds 1b.

1. Chiefly Australian = never-never n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > specific

never-never1833

Never-Never Country1859

never-never land1875

marismas1884

Neverland1892

garigue1896

bled1930

1875 Queenslander 21 Aug. 14/4 Far away in the mysterious ‘Never Never’ land of the interior—that land of fat bullocks, long droughts, bloated squatters, and big floods, those who have returned tell us that the stakes are good, the field large, the horses stout, and time quick.

1892 Speaker 28 May 650/2 ‘A gentleman is a gentleman till he—’ ‘Till he humps his bluey into the Never Never Land, Vic?’

1917 A. B. Paterson Three Elephant Power 41 The typical Australian bullock..is bred away out in Queensland, on remote stations in the Never Never land, where men live on damper and beef, and occasionally eat a whole bottle of hot pickles at a sitting, simply to satisfy their craving for vegetable food.

1933 Pacific Affairs 6 409/2 It adds to our sparse knowledge of those regions termed the ‘Never-Never’ land of Indo-China.

1962 D. Lockwood I, Aboriginal 9 It was one walkabout time at Mount Saint Vidgeon in the Never-Never Land south of the Roper River that the Medicine Man, the Doctor Blackfellow, tried to kill me.

1977 J. Doughty Gold in Blood 106 It was a never-never land then, as it is still; hard, hungry, sun-scorched and lifeless.

2. An imaginary, illusory, or Utopian place.In quot. 1900 humorously: a place where nothing ever gets done.In early use esp. with allusion to the ideal country in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan (first performed in 1904), in the published text of which, however, the country is named the Never Land (see quots. 1911, 1928 for Neverland n. at never adv. and int. Compounds 3; but cf. also quot. a1937).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun]

heaveneOE

land of behesta1200

Cockaigne?c1335

Fortunate Islands?a1475

eutopia1553

utopia1601

horny gate (also port)1605

nonsucha1618

Americaa1631

El Dorado1788

other world1804

Cockneyland1817

cloud-cuckoo-land1824

Fiddler's Green1825

dreamland1832

Neverland1892

never-never land1900

Big Rock Candy Mountain1917

brave new world1933

Xanadu1948

Disneyland1956

ecotopia1975

1900 Cornhill Mag. July 75 Morocco is the never-never land of Africa..the true land of rest, the country of tomorrow.

1907 Canad. Mag. 29 135/1 But instead of the unreal never-never-land..the scene is dear old England.

a1937 J. M. Barrie When Wendy grew Up (1957) 17 Did they ever wish they were back in the Never Never Land?

1938 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood On Frontier i. i. 24 Dream of your never-never land, where the parks are covered with naked cow~like women, quite free.

1958 Spectator 8 Aug. 203/1 It was no longer the real India they wanted to escape to; it was the Never-Never Land of the East.

1984 A. Lee Sarah Phillips (1985) 64 You and Daddy spend all of your lives..teaching us to live in a never-never land where people of all colors just get along swell.

3. An intermediate place; an indeterminate state, a state of uncertainty. Cf. no man's land n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > [noun] > intermediate

no man's landa1845

interlocation1890

shadowland1949

never-never land1971

1971 Nature 30 July 287/1 The result is that the report of the committee under Sir Frederick Dainton on the reorganization of civil research,..has disappeared into never-never land.

1988 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 18 Sept. 3 As Guillen was extinguished in a rundown, Martinez found himself stranded in never-never land between first and second [base], an easy target for a double play.

1991 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 13 Aug. a1/2 For more than a year, Martin R. Henn has languished in the Baltimore city jail in a bureaucratic never-never land—lost in the criminal justice system and unable to exercise his constitutional right to a speedy trial.

2003 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 26 Jan. f1 If your shadow's shoulders aren't swaying from side to side as you ski, you're caught in that Never-never land of the uncommitted.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	never-never land
释义	never-never landn. Brit. /nɛvəˈnɛvə ˌland/, U.S. /ˌnɛvərˈnɛvər ˌlænd/, Australian English /nevəˈnevə ˌlænd/ Forms: also with capital initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: never-never adj., land n.¹ Etymology: < never-never adj. + land n.¹ With sense 1 compare earlier Never-Never Country n. at never-never n. and adj. Compounds 1b. 1. Chiefly Australian = never-never n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > specific never-never1833 Never-Never Country1859 never-never land1875 marismas1884 Neverland1892 garigue1896 bled1930 1875 Queenslander 21 Aug. 14/4 Far away in the mysterious ‘Never Never’ land of the interior—that land of fat bullocks, long droughts, bloated squatters, and big floods, those who have returned tell us that the stakes are good, the field large, the horses stout, and time quick. 1892 Speaker 28 May 650/2 ‘A gentleman is a gentleman till he—’ ‘Till he humps his bluey into the Never Never Land, Vic?’ 1917 A. B. Paterson Three Elephant Power 41 The typical Australian bullock..is bred away out in Queensland, on remote stations in the Never Never land, where men live on damper and beef, and occasionally eat a whole bottle of hot pickles at a sitting, simply to satisfy their craving for vegetable food. 1933 Pacific Affairs 6 409/2 It adds to our sparse knowledge of those regions termed the ‘Never-Never’ land of Indo-China. 1962 D. Lockwood I, Aboriginal 9 It was one walkabout time at Mount Saint Vidgeon in the Never-Never Land south of the Roper River that the Medicine Man, the Doctor Blackfellow, tried to kill me. 1977 J. Doughty Gold in Blood 106 It was a never-never land then, as it is still; hard, hungry, sun-scorched and lifeless. 2. An imaginary, illusory, or Utopian place.In quot. 1900 humorously: a place where nothing ever gets done.In early use esp. with allusion to the ideal country in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan (first performed in 1904), in the published text of which, however, the country is named the Never Land (see quots. 1911, 1928 for Neverland n. at never adv. and int. Compounds 3; but cf. also quot. a1937). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun] heaveneOE land of behesta1200 Cockaigne?c1335 Fortunate Islands?a1475 eutopia1553 utopia1601 horny gate (also port)1605 nonsucha1618 Americaa1631 El Dorado1788 other world1804 Cockneyland1817 cloud-cuckoo-land1824 Fiddler's Green1825 dreamland1832 Neverland1892 never-never land1900 Big Rock Candy Mountain1917 brave new world1933 Xanadu1948 Disneyland1956 ecotopia1975 1900 Cornhill Mag. July 75 Morocco is the never-never land of Africa..the true land of rest, the country of tomorrow. 1907 Canad. Mag. 29 135/1 But instead of the unreal never-never-land..the scene is dear old England. a1937 J. M. Barrie When Wendy grew Up (1957) 17 Did they ever wish they were back in the Never Never Land? 1938 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood On Frontier i. i. 24 Dream of your never-never land, where the parks are covered with naked cow~like women, quite free. 1958 Spectator 8 Aug. 203/1 It was no longer the real India they wanted to escape to; it was the Never-Never Land of the East. 1984 A. Lee Sarah Phillips (1985) 64 You and Daddy spend all of your lives..teaching us to live in a never-never land where people of all colors just get along swell. 3. An intermediate place; an indeterminate state, a state of uncertainty. Cf. no man's land n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [noun] > intermediate no man's landa1845 interlocation1890 shadowland1949 never-never land1971 1971 Nature 30 July 287/1 The result is that the report of the committee under Sir Frederick Dainton on the reorganization of civil research,..has disappeared into never-never land. 1988 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 18 Sept. 3 As Guillen was extinguished in a rundown, Martinez found himself stranded in never-never land between first and second [base], an easy target for a double play. 1991 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 13 Aug. a1/2 For more than a year, Martin R. Henn has languished in the Baltimore city jail in a bureaucratic never-never land—lost in the criminal justice system and unable to exercise his constitutional right to a speedy trial. 2003 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 26 Jan. f1 If your shadow's shoulders aren't swaying from side to side as you ski, you're caught in that Never-never land of the uncommitted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1875
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