单词 | yanqui |
释义 | Yanquiadj.n. = Yankee n. and adj.: used esp. in Latin American contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adjective] American1775 Yankee1781 Native American1793 Yankeeish1818 Americanized1840 Yankeefied1846 all-American1909 Yanqui1929 norteamericano1979 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] long knife1784 Yankeec1784 Yankee Doodle1787 Columbian1789 Brother Jonathan1816 norteamericano1839 United Statesian1845 Joe1947 Yanqui1969 1929 J. Buchan Courts of Morning i. 35 Yanqui youth..is chronically alcoholic and amorous, and its manners are a brilliant copy of the parrot-house. 1937 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 May 397/3 The friction between Yanqui indifference to diplomatic etiquette and Panaman pride are all candidly described here. 1952 Caribbean Q. 2 iv. 9 Latin America replied with denunciations of what is called ‘Yanqui Imperialism’. 1969 Guardian 6 Oct. 11/2 The Mexicans..naturally were loath to prosecute their own kind..on evidence collected by the Yanquis. 1975 New Yorker 30 June 23/3 Pelé, the King of Soccer, the Black Pearl, lured from Brazil by four million seventeen hundred thousand Yanqui dollars and his own sense of duty, was here to play his first game for Warner Communications' New York Cosmos. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 989/4 Roosevelt's seizure of Panama led him to publish his archetypal anti~Yanqui diatribe. 1982 J. D. MacDonald Cinnamon Skin xxiv. 257 It was a childish game with them, to effortlessly outdistance the heaving sweating Yanquis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.n.1929 |
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