Darwin stubby

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

Darwin stubbies 复数 Darwin stubbies

别名

Darwin stubbie

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A 2.25 litre bottle of beer, today made principally as a tourist novelty.

    澳大利亚 非正式

    2003, Our Own Little Kakadu, Janette Turner Hospital, North of Nowhere, South of Loss, page 102, It was a steamy Sunday night, and Jug, guzzling from a large Darwin stubby of tarblack bitter, was weaving by the chapel′s open door on the esplanade when the Lord shouted at the top of His Almighty lungs: “Jug Wilkins, it is required of you this night to be a juggernaut for God.”

    2011, "bottle sizes", entry in Tom Colicchio, Charles Bamforth, George Philliskirk, Keith Villa, Wolfgang Stempfl, Patrick Hayes, The Oxford Companion to Beer, page 152, In the Northern Territory of Australia the “Darwin stubby” is a 2-l beer bottle, originally four Imperial pints (2.27 l), sold to capitalize on the region′s reputation for beer consumption.

词源

From Darwin, the Australian city where such bottles have been sold since 1958, + stubby (“small bottle of beer”), intended ironically.

来源:wiktionary