| 释义 |
secesh, n. and a. U.S. Hist. colloq.|sɪˈsɛʃ|
[Shortened from secession.]
A. n.
a. A secessionist. Also secessionists collectively.
1862O. W. Holmes Old Vol. of Life (1891) 36 ‘There are two wounded Secesh’, said my companion. 1879Tourgee Fool's Errand vi. 25, I was one of the original ‘Secesh’,—one of the immortal thirteen that voted for it in this county.
b. Secession.
1863Trollope in Good Words Dec. 858/2, I won't talk secesh to you out here in the cold. 1868Green Lett. ii. (1901) 203 A Limehouse grocer proclaims his secesh from Newton.
B. adj. = secessionist a.
1861Ohio Statesman 6 Nov. in A. E. Lee's Hist. Columbus II. 102 The following distinguished secesh prisoners have been sent. 1862‘Artemus Ward’ His Bk. (1865) 145 He axed what was my principles? ‘Secesh!’ I ansered. 1871Sir S. Northcote in Life (1890) II. 38 The whole town [Richmond, Va.] is still ‘Secesh’ to the heart's core. |