Koepanger

词形变化

Koepangers 复数 Koepangers

释义与例句

n.
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    A Timorese person.

    1939, The Works of Ion L. Idriess Up above, the tender kept a sharp eye on the Koepanger paying out the air-pipe, while attending to the life-line himself and the management of the lugger.

    2004, William McGregor, The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia Pidginised forms of English were also in use between whites and the other ethnic groups employed in the pearling industry, including Malays, Japanese, and Koepangers […]

adj.
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    Timorese.

    1939, The Works of Ion L. Idriess Upi, the Koepanger charm doctor, slept in the same room.

词源

From Koepang + -er, from the older spelling of Kupang, a city in West Timor.

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