| 单词 | bongo bongo land |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBongo Bongo land Bongo Bongo land n. offensive (a derogatory name for) an unspecified or imaginary country in Africa or the developing world, characterized as being backward or primitive. [Compare Bongoland, the remote area inhabited by the Bongo people (1873: see main etymology).] ΚΠ 1961 J. A. Jonelis in M. Gardner 2nd Sci. Amer. Bk. Math. Puzzles & Diversions xi. 126 His ‘Goom’..meant something like ‘I do not understand’ or ‘Welcome to Bongo Bongo land’. 1985 Guardian 7 Feb. 1/3 A most uncivilised row over whether he had referred to black Britons as denizens of Bongo Bongo land. 1999 S. Perera Haven't stopped dancing Yet xvii. 229 Why don't you just fuck off back to Bongo Bongo Land? 2014 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 4/5 Last year, Godfrey Bloom, one of Mr Farage's closest allies, made a series of outbursts describing foreign countries as ‘bongo bongo land’. < as lemmas |
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