| 单词 | old chum |
| 释义 | > as lemmasold chum b. In Australia: new chum, a fresh immigrant, a ‘greenhorn’; old chum, an old and experienced settler. Also attributive and in other combinations. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [noun] > immigrant > types of new chum1828 old chum1838 old hand1839 overer1871 overner1886 overun1889 landed immigrant1910 migrant1922 economic migrant1933 1838 T. L. Mitchell Three Exped. I. iv. 99 He was also what they term a ‘new chum’, or one newly arrived. 1846 C. P. Hodgson Reminisc. Austral. 366 ‘New Chum’, in opposition to ‘Old Chum’. The former ‘cognomen’ peculiarizing the newly arrived Emigrant; the latter as a mark of respect attached to the more experienced Colonist. 1859 W. Stones N.Z. & its Resources 77 An engagement should only be for a short period until the ‘new chum’ knows the place and people. 1863 S. Butler First Year Canterbury Settl. iv. 55 I was anxious to become an old chum as the colonial dialect calls a settler—thereby proving my new chumship most satisfactorily. 1868 F. W. Hoyle Fragments Jrnl. Shipwreck 23 My fellow passengers [were] both ‘old chums’. 1874 A. Trollope Harry Heathcote vii. 166 He's a ‘new chum’; I suppose that's his excuse. 1886 P. Clarke (title) The ‘New Chum’ in Australia..A man often means by it, ‘There's a poor weak-minded ignorant fool..All that he has learnt is but of little avail to him, nay, perhaps may hinder his graduating as an old chum. He's got to be educated all over again’. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Apr. 11/2 The newchum engine-cleaner, before he began on his first locomotive boiler. 1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 202 There are weird, nodose lizards and dragons, alarming to ‘new chums’, but, in reality, quite harmless. < as lemmas |
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