Bishop Barker

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

Bishop Barkers 复数 Bishop Barkers

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A very tall glass of beer.

    澳大利亚 废旧 俚语

    1898, Price Warung, Dictionary Ned, in Half-Crown Bob and Tales of the Riverine, quoted in 1970, Bill Wannan, Australian Folklore, For a "Bishop Barker" he would compose a quatrain on any subject – a person preferred – suggested by the man who tipped him the drink […] .

词源

After Frederic Barker, who became the second Anglican bishop of Sydney, Australia, in 1855 and was noted for his height and for being a teetotaller. The expression became obsolete in the 1870s.

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