| 释义 |
wowse /waʊz /verb [no object] Australian / NZ informalComment 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. |