| 释义 |
gyver slang. Chiefly Austral. and N.Z.|ˈgaɪvə(r)|
Also givo, givor, guiver, guyver.
[Of unknown origin.]
Affectation of speech or behaviour, esp. in phr. to put on the gyver. Also as adj.: smart, fashionable.
a1866Vance Chickaleary Cove (Farmer & Henley), The stock around my squeeze of a guiver colour see. 1889Barrère & Leland Slang I. 411/2 Guiver (theatrical), flattery, artfulness. 1897D. McK. Wright Station Ballads (1945) 45 He'd put on ‘gyver’ enough to last a full-bred actor a week. 1899W. T. Goodge Hits, Skits & Jingles (1904) 18 And I ain't got the style and the guiver Of them bank clerks and students and sich. 1914Bulletin (Sydney) 14 May, 'E 'ad a bit of guiver wif the secrety. 1916J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee x. 142 I'm not takin' any of that sort of ‘gyver’, you know. 1918Chrons. N.Z.E.F. 5 July 253/1 The ‘givor’ that kid puts on, you would think he was a captain at least. 1928J. Devanny Dawn Beloved xviii. 179 Mrs. Rodda thinks herself too good for anybody else... To hear her and Mrs. Devoy talk! The guyver they put on! 1938Observer 25 Sept. 9/2 Guyver: Make-believe, still used in Anglo-Jewish slang. It is Hebrew for pride, but has now come to mean pretence and is synonymous with..swank. 1948V. Palmer Golconda xxxii. 272 Well, what's all this guyver about the going being tough? 1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 1939–1945 83 Givo or gyvo, an adjective which describes any sartorial eccentricity. A ‘tiddley-suit’ made by a shore-going tailor which has wider bell⁓bottoms than are permitted by the Service regulations. 1970D. M. Davin Not Here, Not Now iii. vii. 207, I wouldn't want you to get stuck-up and start putting on the gyver and forgetting your own. |