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单词 toubab
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toubabn.

Brit. /ˈtuːbɑːb/, U.S. /ˈtuˌbɑb/, West African English /tuˈbab/
Forms: Also toubob.
Etymology: < French toubabe, < Wolof tubaab European.
Frequently derogatory.
In Central and West Africa: a white (or Westernized) person, a European; such people considered collective.
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toubab1976
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of West Africa > [noun] > European
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toubab1976
1911 E. Hopkinson Vocab. Mandingo Lang. 15/1 European..Tubàbo, this name is also nowadays applied to any civilised native, to anyone, in fact, who wears European trousers.]
1976 A. Haley Roots (1977) lxxxv. 437 She had never understood why her pappy had always felt so bitter against the world of white people—‘toubob’ was his word for them.
1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) ii. 45 In the season the toubabs call fall, Colonel Ellelloû returned to Istiqlal.
1981 N.Y. Times 31 May x. 5/1 Occasionally a tiny child screamed in fright at the sight of us, and we got used to children calling out ‘toubab, toubab’—white man.
1990 N.Y. Times 16 Sept. vii. 22/1 We're driven to join Evan in wondering not only if he's a ‘toubob’..but if he simply is at all.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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