单词 | toubab |
释义 | toubabn. Frequently derogatory. In Central and West Africa: a white (or Westernized) person, a European; such people considered collective. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] white mana1398 Christian1622 European1666 white-face1684 long knife1784 buckra1794 sahib1796 white-skin1803 whitey1811 Pakeha1817 papalagi1817 paleface1823 whitefellow1826 Abelungu1836 haole1843 gringo1849 lightiea1855 umlungu1859 mzungu1860 heaven-burster1861 ladino1877 mooniasc1880 Conchy Joe1888 béké1889 ofay1899 ridge runner1904 Ngati Pakeha1905 kelch1912 pink1913 leucoderm1924 fay1927 Mr Charlie1928 pinkie1935 devil1938 wonk1938 oaf1941 grey1943 paddy1945 Caucasoid1956 Jumble1957 Caucasian1958 white boy1958 pinko-grey1964 honky1967 toubab1976 palagi1977 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of West Africa > [noun] > European coaster1898 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). < n.1976 |
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