doolally tap

短语

词形变化

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别名

doolally-tap

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Camp fever; by extension, madness, eccentricity.

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adj.
  1. 1.

    Mad, insane, eccentric.

    英国

词源

From Deolali (the name of a former British army camp 100 miles north-east of Bombay, used as a transit station for soldiers awaiting transport back to Britain) + tap (from Persian or Urdu تب (tab, “malarial fever”), ultimately from Sanskrit ताप (tāpa, “heat; fever”)). According to one suggestion, to go doolally tap was to go crazy while waiting.

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