| 释义 |
▪ I. boong Austral. slang.|buːŋ|
Also boang.
[Aboriginal word.]
An (Australian) Aboriginal; a native of New Guinea; also, any coloured person.
1941K. Tennant Battlers ix. 110 Those boangs are all too matey with the police. 1943Baker Dict. Austral. Slang (ed. 3) 13 Boong, an aboriginal; a native of New Guinea. 1945R. J. Oakes in Coast to Coast 1944 99 He had six wounded men..and four boongs to help him. 1950‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice 75 ‘I thought you were a lot of boongs,’ he said. ‘You say you're English.’ 1962Economist 10 Nov. 577/1 In Australian eyes, Indonesia was a nation of poor struggling ‘boongs’ (a slang word which in its narrowest sense is applied to the natives of New Guinea). 1969Times 1 Apr. p. ii/5 He is trying to lead Australians away from what he calls the ‘poor old bloody boong’ mentality.
▪ II. boong
obs. form of bung. |