| 单词 | west brit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWest Brit West Brit n. derogatory (chiefly Irish English) a native of the Republic of Ireland who favours a close political or cultural connection with Great Britain (cf. West Briton n. 2). ΚΠ 1973 C. Masey Rationalism & Humanism in New Europe 20 Where the Irish language was once used to sort out the ‘real’ Irish from the West-Brits it could now identify Ireland as a whole. 1985 Amer. Hist. Rev. 90 420/1 Morrissey's biography provides a sympathetic picture of a type of Irishman who was later to be stigmatized in ‘Irish-Ireland’ circles as a ‘West Brit’. 2001 S. MacGowan in V. M. Clarke & S. MacGowan Drink with Shane MacGowan vi. 252 He was a West Brit, y'know. Only West Brits play cricket for Ireland anyway. < as lemmas |
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