| 释义 |
ˈhome-folk, -folks colloq. (chiefly U.S.).
[home n.1 15 i.]
The people from or near one's home, i.e. one's friends, relatives, or neighbours. Chiefly U.S.
1884‘C. E. Craddock’ In Tenn. Mts. 288 All the home-folks, an' everybody that kems hyar to sot an' talk. 1900J. W. Riley (title) Home-folks. 1907Westm. Gaz. 21 Sept. 6/2 They wander from the home-folks' ken. 1909Ibid. 2 Dec. 2/3 Of home-folk caught by crumbling walls. 1915H. L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) v. 99 Then we tried his home-folks in Boston. 1955E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 19 when I come in from being out My home-folk don't want me about. 1964Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 7 Jan. (1970) 33, I greeted L. F. McCollum of Continental Oil of Houston as homefolks. |