| 单词 | bush tucker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbush tucker bush tucker n. colloquial (originally Australian) food, typically uncooked, from plants and animals native to the Australian outback; cf. tucker n.1 5b. ΚΠ 1885 Eastern Districts Chron. (York, W. Austral.) 13 June 3/1 Wattle Birds and Squeakers have now become extinct, owing to the prevailing hard times, and the necessity..for man to subsist entirely upon bush ‘tucker’. 1930 Dubbo Liberal & Macquarie Advocate (New S. Wales) 21 Mar. 8/2 His party rallied him on being a poor traveller unable to enjoy bush tucker. 1996 J. M. Jacobs Edge of Empire vi. 134 Visitors might..sit down to an Aboriginal-inspired ‘bush tucker’ meal..or browse amongst the ‘high quality’ artefacts available for purchase. 2014 Wiltshire Times (Nexis) 27 July (News section) One of the most popular activities was the bush tucker trials, which tasked challengers with eating witchetty grubs and crickets. < as lemmas |
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