| 释义 |
plurry, a. and adv. Austral. and N.Z. slang.|ˈplʌrɪ|
[Maori corruption of bloody a. and adv.]
= bloody a. 10, adv. 2.
1900H. Lawson Verses, Pop. & Humorous 227 And their language that day, I am sorry to say, Mostly consisted of ‘plurry’. 1916Anzac Book 137 By this time, being the twelfth month of the same year, it waxed ‘plurry’ cold, even unto a fall of snow. 1933H. G. Wells Bulpington of Blup vi. 239 Gawd save us from any plurry mucking pushes. Ibid. 242 You're plurry well doing too much with your mouth... Shut it! 1938R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 31 It's all right for Pakeha's to spout about Maori art but it won't help me to get manure for my plurry cow farm. 1959News Chron. 6 July 4/2 ‘You watch your plurry step, man,’ he said. ‘We know your plurry kind.’ 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. x. 200 The literary convention of Maori English interlarded with plurry..belongs to the language of journalists rather than the language of Maoris. 1977Sunday Times 3 July 28/7 I'll bowl a plurry sight faster if they'd let me take my boots off. |