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单词 Uncle Tom
释义

tom1 /tom/

noun
  1. A male of various animals, esp a cat
  2. A name for a big bell
  3. A prostitute (police and criminal sl)
  4. (with cap) an Uncle Tom (US slang)
intransitive verb (tommˈing; tommed)

To work as a prostitute (police and criminal sl)

ORIGIN: Short form of Thomas

Tom and Jerry noun

Hot rum and eggs, spiced and sweetened

tomˈcat noun

A male cat

Tom Collins

See under Collins1

Tom-noddˈy noun

  1. The puffin
  2. A fool

Tomˈ-trot noun

A kind of toffee

Long Tom

A long gun, esp one carried amidships on a swivelling carriage

Old Tom

Gin

Tom, Dick, and/or Harry

  1. Anybody
  2. People in general (also (old) Tom and Tib)

Tom o’ Bedlam

Formerly, a madman let out of an asylum with a licence to beg

Tom Tiddler's ground

  1. A place where wealth is to be had for the picking up
  2. Debatable land
  3. No-man's-land (from a children's game so called)

Uncle Tom see under uncle

uncle /ungˈkl/

noun
  1. The brother of one's father or mother, or an aunt's husband, or a great-uncle (used with cap as a title, either before a man's first name or independently)
  2. Used as a form of address to an elderly, esp black, man (chiefly US)
  3. A pawnbroker (slang)
  4. (with cap) a title sometimes used by children for male friends of their parents
transitive verb

To address as uncle

ORIGIN: OFr uncle (Fr oncle), from L avunculus a maternal uncle

unˈcleship noun

The state of being an uncle

uncle Dick or Uncle Dick adjective (Cockney rhyming sl)

Sick

Uncle Sam noun

The United States or its people

Uncle Tom noun (US derogatory)

A black American whose co-operative attitude to white people is thought to show disloyalty to black people (based on the hero of Harriet Beecher-Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851–2))

cry or say uncle (US)

To surrender or admit defeat

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