单词 | noggy |
释义 | noggyn. Australian slang (originally Military). derogatory and offensive. Now rare. An Asian, or a person of Asian origin, esp. (in the Korean and Vietnam wars) one who is a soldier. ΚΠ 1945 Austral. Women's Weekly 13 Oct. 13/1 The Noggies learned he was a journalist, so he was transferred from Ambon to the neighboring Island of Ceram for 16 months. 1954 N. Bartlett With Australians in Korea 217 This old bloke says there are about a hundred noggies in the village. 1969 Telegraph (Brisbane) 8 Feb. 5/2 We had only gone about 50 metres when I saw three Noggies. 1975 Bulletin (Sydney) 10 May 14/2 The word ‘noggy’..that Australian Army slang word, with all its harshness and ugliness, gives a sense of how our bitter troops felt the waste of it all. 1981 C. Wallace-Crabbe Splinters 56 They had led him on a fair treat with questions about Noggy women. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1945 |
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