| 释义 |
Jumble, n.2 slang.|ˈdʒʌmb(ə)l|
[Corruption of John Bull.]
A Black man's nickname for a white man. Also attrib. or as adj.
1957C. MacInnes City of Spades i. iii. 17 ‘You're a Jumble, man... That's what we call you... It's cheeky, perhaps, but not so very insulting.’ ‘May I enquire how it is spelt?’ ‘J-o-h-n-b-u-l-l.’ ‘..But pronounced as you pronounce it?’ ‘Yes: Jumble.’ 1957Listener 12 Sept. 402/1 Jumble, a happy corruption of John Bull, is the Englishman's nickname in the mouths of the thousands of Africans and West Indians who have flocked to London since the war. Ibid., The Jumble capital. Ibid., An alien and uncomprehending Jumble world. 1961M. Dickens Heart of London ii. 190 Get all you can out of the Jumbles. Ibid. iii. 294 He feeling his way about the Jumbles, he got no time to worry about Trinidad. |