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单词 wheneye
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Wheneyen.

/ˈhwɛnʌɪ/
Forms: Also When-eye, Whennie /ˈhwɛnɪ/.
Etymology: Respelling of phrase ‘When I (was..)’.
slang and derogatory.
A person (esp. a visitor or foreigner) who exasperates listeners by continually recounting tales of his or her own former exploits.
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1982 Age (Melbourne) 8 Feb. 16 I met my first Wheneye in the corner of a bar overlooking the sea on the north shore of a small island.
1983 Daily Mirror 25 Aug. 13/1 The [Falkland] islanders now call members of HM Forces ‘Whennies’. The reason for this? ‘When I stormed Goose Green’, ‘When I took Tumbledown’, ‘When I entered Stanley...’ And so on.
1990 Independent 1 June 19/5 In the Isle of Man..the incomers are known to the locals as the ‘Wheneyes’ from their habit of harking eternally back to their former lives, saying ‘when I was chairman’ of this that or the other company.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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