Jimmy Woodser
短语词形变化
释义与例句
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1.
A man who drinks alone.
澳大利亚 非正式1900, Henry Lawson, They Wait on the Wharf in Black, in Over the Sliprails, Gutenberg eBook #1313, “What did you follow him below that time for, Mitchell?” I asked presently, for want of something better to say. Mitchell looked at me out of the corners of his eyes. “I wanted to score a drink!” he said. “I thought he wanted one and wouldn′t like to be a Jimmy Woodser.”
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2.
A drink consumed alone.
澳大利亚 非正式
词源
From a poem by Barcroft Boake, published in The Bulletin of 7 May 1892, about a fictional Jimmy Wood from Britain who is determined to end the practice of shouting (buying rounds of drinks for one′s group of mates). : One man one liquor! though I have to die A martyr to my faith, that′s Jimmy Wood, sir. Another mooted derivation is the Sydney slang term Johnny Warder (“a man who tries to cadge drinks”), after the similarly eponymous John Ward, a Sydney publican.
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