| 单词 | starve the bardies! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstarve the bardies! An edible Australian wood-boring grub ( Bardistus cibarius) or its larvæ. Used locally in starve the bardies!, an exclamatory phrase of surprise or disgust. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] > grubs cabbage-tree worm1796 witchetty1891 bardy1926 1926 R. J. Tillyard Insects Austral. & N.Z. xx. 233 Coleoptera..The ‘bardee’ of Western Australia, Bardistus cibarius Newm., ranges right across to New South Wales; its larvae are found in the stems of grass-trees and ‘black-boys’ (Xanthorrhoea) and are eaten both by aborigines and white people. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 8 Starve the bardies!, a popular W.A. ejaculation, synonymous with ‘Stone the crows!’ a1951 X. Herbert in W. Murdoch & H. Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories 299 Kaijek paused to look among the broken roots for bardies. 1959 A. Upfield Bony & Black Virgin xvii. 150 The bardee grubs came up from tree-trunks and..tree-roots to split their skins and emerge as great winged moths the size of a man's hand. 1963 J. Fountain in ‘B. James’ Austral. Short Stories 270 Fisher..sneaking round the corner..with a jar of bardi grubs under his arm. < as lemmas |
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