| 单词 | to hump bluey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hump (one's, the) bluey Australian and New Zealand. to hump (one's, the) bluey: to travel with a swag, to hit the trail; cf. hump v. 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > as a vagabond or tramp > carrying belongings to swag it1861 to hump (one's, the) bluey1878 to walk (also waltz) Matilda1889 1878Hump bluey [see sense B. 2a]. 1890 Argus (Melbourne) 16 Aug. 13/2 ‘We shall have to hump “bluey” again,’ said Tom... Early November saw us again on the track. 1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. 73 ‘Humping bluey’ is for a workman to walk in search of work. 1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby xi. 278 An expression used for what in England we call ‘tramping’, is ‘going on the wallaby’, otherwise ‘humping the swag’, or ‘the bluey’, or ‘sundowning’. 1966 G. McInnes (title) Humping my Bluey. 1977 C. James in Listener 28 Oct. 598/1 Edna proved that you can hump your bluey all over the country..and still come up looking as chipper as Patricia Hayes. < as lemmas |
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