单词 | blackfellow-fashion |
释义 | > as lemmasblackfellow-fashion blackfellow-fashion adv. now considered offensive in the manner of Australian Aboriginal people. ΚΠ 1862 A. Polehampton Kangaroo Land 106 Our meat we..threw..on the ashes to cook itself—black-fellow fashion. 1963 C. Barrett in B. Wannan Treasury Austral. Frontier Tales 44 She was forced to climb trees blackfellow fashion—cutting notches in the bark for the feet, and using a vine-stem loop. 1984 R. M. W. Dixon Searching for Aboriginal Lang. (1989) 101 Douglas's wife died four or five years later, and he followed her within a couple of months. As Percy put it, ‘he sang himself to sleep, blackfellow fashion.’ < as lemmas |
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