英语词汇“whitewashed yankee”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

4. Modifying a noun denoting nationality: designating a person who has adopted the behaviour, mannerisms, or attitudes associated with the specified nationality (often implying affectation or superficiality); (also) designating a person who has obtained the specified nationality, esp. only for the sake of convenience. Also in extended use. Chiefly in whitewashed American, whitewashed Yank, whitewashed Yankee. Now historical.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > affecting American manners

whitewashed Yankee1753

whitewashed American1926

whitewashed Yank1938

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. ii. xxvi. 158 I have heard the Russian merchants occasionally treat us with ridicule, by using a droll expression, which signifies, ‘Are you a white-washed Englishman?’

1855 in Occas. Papers Univ. Sydney Austral. Lang. Res. Centre (1966) No. 10. 26 ‘I have heard people say they would like to see us clear altogether of British rule.’..‘Have you heard that said here?’—‘Yes, by a few of those disaffected persons; very few; they are generally what are termed “white-washed Yankees”.’

1898 A. J. Boyd Shellback 73 He was not one of the low, bullying, half-Irish, half-American sort of men who are called ‘whitewashed Yankees’.

1903 Great Round World 21 Feb. 175/1 The Sultan said: ‘It is said that I am going too fast, that I am a white-washed European and that I dress in European garb.’

1926 W. S. Dill Long Day 147 This particular story concerns a ‘white-washed American’, i.e. a native of Canada who had been naturalized in the United States and then secured repatriation in his own country.

1938 F. A. Worsley First Voy. in Square-rigged Ship 82 Whitewashed Yanks (Europeans who had served a voyage in American ships or spent a short period in the States) were numerous.

1970 J. F. Leavitt Wake of Coasters 62/2 Some of the schooners in later years were ‘white-washed yankees’: American built vessels kept under U.S. registry but with the controlling interest actually owned across the border in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia.

2001 R. W. Bailey in J. Algeo Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lang. (2005) VI. xiv. 490 In Australia, as early as 1855, some convicts and former convicts, known locally as white-washed Yankees, were inclined to affect American speech and manners.

单词	whitewashed yankee
释义	> as lemmas whitewashed Yankee 4. Modifying a noun denoting nationality: designating a person who has adopted the behaviour, mannerisms, or attitudes associated with the specified nationality (often implying affectation or superficiality); (also) designating a person who has obtained the specified nationality, esp. only for the sake of convenience. Also in extended use. Chiefly in whitewashed American, whitewashed Yank, whitewashed Yankee. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > affecting American manners whitewashed Yankee1753 whitewashed American1926 whitewashed Yank1938 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. ii. xxvi. 158 I have heard the Russian merchants occasionally treat us with ridicule, by using a droll expression, which signifies, ‘Are you a white-washed Englishman?’ 1855 in Occas. Papers Univ. Sydney Austral. Lang. Res. Centre (1966) No. 10. 26 ‘I have heard people say they would like to see us clear altogether of British rule.’..‘Have you heard that said here?’—‘Yes, by a few of those disaffected persons; very few; they are generally what are termed “white-washed Yankees”.’ 1898 A. J. Boyd Shellback 73 He was not one of the low, bullying, half-Irish, half-American sort of men who are called ‘whitewashed Yankees’. 1903 Great Round World 21 Feb. 175/1 The Sultan said: ‘It is said that I am going too fast, that I am a white-washed European and that I dress in European garb.’ 1926 W. S. Dill Long Day 147 This particular story concerns a ‘white-washed American’, i.e. a native of Canada who had been naturalized in the United States and then secured repatriation in his own country. 1938 F. A. Worsley First Voy. in Square-rigged Ship 82 Whitewashed Yanks (Europeans who had served a voyage in American ships or spent a short period in the States) were numerous. 1970 J. F. Leavitt Wake of Coasters 62/2 Some of the schooners in later years were ‘white-washed yankees’: American built vessels kept under U.S. registry but with the controlling interest actually owned across the border in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia. 2001 R. W. Bailey in J. Algeo Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lang. (2005) VI. xiv. 490 In Australia, as early as 1855, some convicts and former convicts, known locally as white-washed Yankees, were inclined to affect American speech and manners. extracted from whitewashedadj. < as lemmas
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