Whiteboy

n. [爱尔兰史]白衣会会员(1760年前后建立的一个爱尔兰农民秘密组织成员,夜间活动时身穿白衣)

词形变化

Whiteboys 复数 Whiteboys

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of the Whiteboys, a secret Irish agrarian organization in 18th-century Ireland, using violent tactics to defend tenant farmers' land rights for subsistence farming.

词源

From white + boy, from the white smocks the members wore in their nightly raids.

来源：wiktionary