释义 |
half-pie, a. N.Z. slang.|ˈhɑːfpaɪ| Also occas. half-pi. [perh. ad. Maori pai good.] Halfway towards, imperfect, mediocre. Also absol. or as n.
c1926‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 11 There's no half-pie about this kid. 1938R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 16 She would rather have a Maori who was a real man than a half-pie Pakeha who talked too much. Ibid. 78 A few straggling houses and a half-pie store. 1949H. Wadman Life Sentence i. i. 8 New Zealanders who go home on scholarships and come back half-pi Englishmen. 1952R. Finlayson Schooner came to Atia x. 58 Half-pie commie and the gospel-thumpers together! 1955Landfall IX. 274 He hadn't been a real officer, only a half-pie one. |