| 单词 | to eat tutu |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat (one's) tutu b. to eat (one's) tutu or toot, to become acclimatized, spec. to colonial life in New Zealand (see quots.). New Zealand slang (now Obsolete exc. Historical). ΚΠ 1857 R. B. Paul Lett. from Canterbury ii. 26 [The newly arrived settlers] passed..through the crisis of unreasonableness, false pride, and grumbling, which old settlers call ‘eating their tutu’... The tutu, or ‘toot’,..is a native shrub the leaves of which may be eaten with safety by cattle gradually accumstomed to its use, but are often fatal to newly-landed animals. 1889 G. P. Williams & W. P. Reeves Colonial Couplets 20 The troublesome process..Which old settlers are wont to call ‘eating your tutu’. 1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang iii. 27 To eat toot was the pioneer way of describing the period during which new immigrants settled down to the cold facts of New Zealand life. More correctly the expression was to eat tutu..the poisonous plant. 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 165 The early colonial phrase ‘to eat one's tutu’ meaning ‘to be acclimatized to colonial life’. < as lemmas |
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