kemosabe

词形变化

kemosabes not attested 复数

别名

kemosabi kemo sabe ke-mo sah-bee

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An appellation given to a wise, trustworthy friend.

    非正式

词源

Coined for the 1938 Lone Ranger television serial. Further etymology uncertain: *Some trace the word through the Kee-Mo Sah-Bee summer camp in Michigan to Ojibwe giimoozaabi (“he spies”). See more at Wikipedia. *Alternatively, from a corruption of Spanish quien lo sabe "(he) who knows".

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