单词 | yopo |
释义 | yopon. = niopo n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > miscellaneous narcotic drugs from plants henbane?a1425 metel1528 datura1598 carpese1605 cabbage bark1777 majoun1780 lettuce opium1799 stramonium1802 niopo1821 tea oil1837 khat1858 pituri1861 steppe rue1881 ololiuqui1894 toloache1894 yopo1916 mellow yellow1966 1916 Jrnl. Washington Acad. Sci. 6 554 This snuff..was afterwards identified by Humboldt with the yupa or ñupa of the Otomac Indians. 1959 J. H. Steward & L. C. Faron Native Peoples S. Amer. xii. 358 The Betoi were unusual for..the extensive use of drugs, including yopo, by shamans. 1969 Science 163 249 The best known is yopo of the Orinoco area of Colombia and Venezuela, made from the toasted beans of A. peregrina..usually with an alkaline admixture of ashes or calcined shells and causing, when blown into the nostrils, an intoxication marked by a temporary fury and trance. 1988 Independent (Nexis) 27 Sept. 14 He will also try anything once, including Yoppo, a fierce hallucinogenic drug which is blasted into the sinuses and provokes, after a heartstopping, retching pause, a cataract of released mucus. 2001 Daily Mail (Nexis) 9 Aug. 24 The Yanomami urged him to snort their war-drug, yoppo, a powerful narcotic, before they went off and slaughtered the inhabitants of a nearby village. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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