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单词 wowse
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wowse

/waʊz /
verb [no object] Australian /NZ informal
Comment on moral issues, typically in a puritanical or censorious way: it is time Sydney Anglicans and Protestants stopped wowsing ineffectually at a high level...
  • There are other people living on boats in the marina, and we wouldn't want them wowsing.
  • Oh, why will they Wowse, these public men?
  • Sane-minded Australians will be disgusted to learn that there is a movement on foot in wowsing circles here to import Cockney members of that nauseous body, the Y.M.C.A., to Australia in large quantities.

Origin

Early 20th century: back-formation from wowser.

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