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单词 toi-toi
释义

toi-toin.

/ˈtɔɪtɔɪ/
Forms: Also toe-toe, tohi, toi.
Etymology: Maori.
The native name for various tall reed-like grasses of the genus Arundo, esp. A. conspicua, natives of New Zealand.
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1843 in A. Domett Collect. Ord. (1850) Every building constructed wholly or in part of raupo, nikau, toi~toi, wiwi kakaho, straw or thatch of any description.
1867 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) xv. 110 Thatching it with Tohi, or swamp-grass.
1892 19th Cent. Sept. 409 The Toe-toe, which closely resembles pampas grass.
1907 ‘K. Mansfield’ Jrnl. Nov.–Dec. (1954) 23 A clump of toi-toi waving in the wind, and looking for all the world like a family of little girls drying their hair.
1957 J. Frame Owls do Cry 13 The place was like a shell with gold tickle of toi-toi around its edges.
1981 M. Gee Meg xxi. 244 Hedges of toi-toi and fields of fat spring grass.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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