英语词汇“old identity”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

5. New Zealand and Australian. A person long resident or well known in a place; a local eccentric; such persons collectively. Frequently as old identity.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > [noun] > long-standing

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1862 Otago, Its Goldfields & Resources 9 The exclusive spirit of the ‘old identity’.

1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences iii. 26 The term ‘old identities’ took its origin from an expression in a speech made by one of the members of the Provincial Council, Mr E. B. Cargill, who, in speaking of the new arrivals, said that the early settlers should endeavour to preserve their old identity... A comic singer [C. R. Thatcher] helped to perpetuate the name by writing a song.

1889 Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Sept. 8/1 Many of the old identities of '52 and '53 will remember the license-hunting and shanty-raiding days.

1905 N.Z. Truth 23 Sept. 5 (caption) Three Auckland identities.

1929 ‘M. B. Eldershaw’ House is Built (1945) v. 111 He was the sort of man who becomes an old identity almost at once, so that the residents of the Parramatta Road..soon thought they had been seeing him drive past in his indescribably sailorly fashion all their lives.

1942 ‘M. Innes’ Daffodil Affair ii. ii. 46 Ron's dad was a well-known identity Cobdogla-way.

1959 K. Sinclair Hist. N.Z. 104 Dunedin became the largest town in the country, while, to the horror of the ‘Old Identity’, saloons, billiard rooms, gambling dens and dance halls sprang up to attract the gold of the ‘New Iniquity’.

1970 N.Z. Woman's Weekly 9 Nov. 19/1 Havelock North identity Mrs C. E. Turner-Williams..at 98 stitches happily on.

1984 L. D. Edmond High Country Weather 31 But my father you know—very old identity—big holdings in those days.

2006 D. Parer in T. Jeffrey Film Business xix. 199 He is a local identity and much loved by all the desert folk.

单词	old identity
释义	> as lemmas old identity 5. New Zealand and Australian. A person long resident or well known in a place; a local eccentric; such persons collectively. Frequently as old identity. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > [noun] > long-standing old identity1862 1862 Otago, Its Goldfields & Resources 9 The exclusive spirit of the ‘old identity’. 1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences iii. 26 The term ‘old identities’ took its origin from an expression in a speech made by one of the members of the Provincial Council, Mr E. B. Cargill, who, in speaking of the new arrivals, said that the early settlers should endeavour to preserve their old identity... A comic singer [C. R. Thatcher] helped to perpetuate the name by writing a song. 1889 Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Sept. 8/1 Many of the old identities of '52 and '53 will remember the license-hunting and shanty-raiding days. 1905 N.Z. Truth 23 Sept. 5 (caption) Three Auckland identities. 1929 ‘M. B. Eldershaw’ House is Built (1945) v. 111 He was the sort of man who becomes an old identity almost at once, so that the residents of the Parramatta Road..soon thought they had been seeing him drive past in his indescribably sailorly fashion all their lives. 1942 ‘M. Innes’ Daffodil Affair ii. ii. 46 Ron's dad was a well-known identity Cobdogla-way. 1959 K. Sinclair Hist. N.Z. 104 Dunedin became the largest town in the country, while, to the horror of the ‘Old Identity’, saloons, billiard rooms, gambling dens and dance halls sprang up to attract the gold of the ‘New Iniquity’. 1970 N.Z. Woman's Weekly 9 Nov. 19/1 Havelock North identity Mrs C. E. Turner-Williams..at 98 stitches happily on. 1984 L. D. Edmond High Country Weather 31 But my father you know—very old identity—big holdings in those days. 2006 D. Parer in T. Jeffrey Film Business xix. 199 He is a local identity and much loved by all the desert folk. extracted from identityn. < as lemmas
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