peckerwood

英 ['pekəwʊd] 美
  • n. 啄木鸟

英文词源


peckerwood (n.)
1859, U.S. Southern black dialectal inversion of woodpecker; in folklore, taken as the type of white folks (1929) and symbolically contrasted with blackbird.

双语例句


1. What do we look like, a couple of peckerwood jackasses?
我们看起来象什么, 象不象啄木鸟?

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