单词 | blue belly |
释义 | blue bellyn. Originally and chiefly U.S. regional (southern). Usually derogatory. A blue-bellied person (blue-bellied adj. 1), one regarded as low, contemptible, or cowardly; spec. (a) a northerner; (b) a northern soldier, esp. during the American Civil War (1861–5).In sense (b) with reference to the blue uniform of the Union Army; cf. blue n. 2c, greyback n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of New Englander1637 bayman1641 New English1647 Novangle1650 Novanglian1752 Yankee1765 cracker1766 Yank?1778 bushwhacker1809 tuckahoe1816 southerner1817 Yengees1819 muskrat1823 blue belly1827 half horse and half alligator1828 Southron1828 northerner1831 westerner1835 Northman1836 Easterner1838 Far-Wester1843 southwesterner1845 western1846 sand-hiller1848 Vineyarder1851 mountain boomer1859 Far Westerner1862 blue-nosed Yankee1866 Appalachian1888 sloper1892 Ozarkian1893 rebel1895 reb1897 Middle Westerner1899 hillbilly1900 Midwesterner1916 Ozarker1920 Geechee1926 Middle American1944 upstater1944 Mid-American1959 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > American > specific Jersey blue1758 shirtman1775 Yorker1776 buckskin1783 Indian fighter1824 blue belly1827 greyback1854 Zouave1860 Zou-Zou1860 greycoat1861 grey1862 Johnny1862 Johnny Reb1862 blue1870 blue coat1885 dogface1932 1827 J. Pickering Jrnl. 13 July in Inq. of Emigrant (1830) vii. 92 The inhabitants are chiefly Americans... some..from the ‘States' prison’, and some that have ‘broke the limits’... In short ‘blue bellies’ of all sorts and conditions. 1857 T. H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas iv. 41 No high-falutin' airs here, you know. Keep that for them Yankee Blue-bellies down East. 1866 ‘F. Kirkland’ Pict. Bk. Anecd. 234/1 The door was opened, and the gray-backs were not a little astonished at the sight of the ‘blue bellies’. 1905 R. E. Beach Pardners ii. 54 Then I says, ‘Well! them bodies has got to be hid, or we'll have..the blue-bellies from the fort a scouring these hills till a red-bug couldn't hide.’ 2000 N.Y. Times 13 Nov. e4/4 An angry e-mail from a man who was upset that the historical society would publish the diary of a ‘blue belly’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1827 |
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