pillaloo
词形变化
释义与例句
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1.
A chorus of sorrow or distress
废旧
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1.
A cry of sorrow or distress
废旧Oh, pillaloo! why should ye go, my boy, and lave all the good atin and drinkin?
1857 Henry Murray, Lands of the Slave and the Free The dialogue was brought to a sudden stop by the frantic yell of the juvenile pledge of their affections, whose years had not yet reached two figures; a compact little iron-bound box had fallen on his toe, and the poor little urchin’s pilliloo, pilliloo, was pitiful.
An’ the wust was, that what wi’ the rumpus an’ her singin’ out “Pillaloo!” an’ how the devil was amongst mun, havin’ great wrath, the Lawyer’s sarmon about a “wecked an’ ’dulterous generation seekin’ arter a sign” was clean sp’iled.
词源
Of Irish origin; originally began as a hunting cry.
来源:wiktionary