| 单词 | old toppie |
| 释义 | > as lemmasold toppie 1. A middle-aged or elderly man. Also (more generally), a fellow, a man. Frequently with defining word, as old toppie. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > old man > [noun] old maneOE bevara1275 beauperec1300 vieillard1475 Nestor?c1510 old gentleman1526 haga1529 velyarda1529 old fellow?1555 old sire1557 granfer1564 vecchioc1570 ageman1571 grave-porer1582 grandsire1595 huddle-duddle1599 elder1600 pantaloon1602 cuffc1616 crone1630 old boya1637 codger?1738 dry-beard1749 eld1796 patriarch1819 oubaas1824 old chap1840 pap1844 pop1844 tad1877 old baas1882 senex1898 finger1904 AK1911 alte kacker1911 poppa stoppa1944 madala1960 Ntate1975 1963 L. F. Freed Crime in S. Afr. vi. 127 The tsotsis have a variety of words for money... Their word for an old man is ‘toppie’, for a young girl ‘tjerrie’, for a European ‘lani’. 1979 F. Dike First S. African 12 How can he live at the hostels taking all that shit from those topies there? 1986 W. P. Finnegan Crossing Line xiv. 67 You might find some old toppie just sitting there in the road crying. He had taken some drinks, you know, and now he couldn't find his house! 2016 Cape Argus (Nexis) 6 Feb. (Sport section) 27 Another toppie was showing youngsters half his age how to ride macking 15-foot barrels at Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii. < as lemmas |
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