单词 | pialla |
释义 | piallav. Australian colloquial. Now rare. transitive. Esp. in Australian Aboriginal usage: to tell, relate (news, etc.); to speak to, entreat (someone). Also intransitive: to talk. ΚΠ 1790 D. Southwell Corr. & Papers Pī-ă-la, to speak or talk.] 1830 R. Dawson Present State Austral. 162 What for piola (talk to) me dat. 1845 C. Hodgkinson Austral., Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay 52 I..sent Wongarini Paddy, and Billy, to pialla (tell the news) to them. 1846 Cumberland Times (Parramatta) 25 Apr. 4/1 Hearing some alarm was felt in Sydney respecting them, they at once dispatched one of the tribe to Sydney, as a special Courier, to pialler news, as to their whereabouts. 1891 Mrs. P. Martin Coo-ee 274 Debil-debil must be ‘piall-ed’ (entreated) by the sick person to unbury the hair. 1902 R. C. Praed Fugitive Anne xxxii. 304 He was vociferating loudly, and calling upon Yuro Kateena to pialla Mormodelik for his protection. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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