| 释义 |
shrewdie colloq. (orig. Austral. and N.Z.).|ˈʃruːdɪ|
Also shrewdy.
[f. shrewd a. + -ie.]
1. A shrewd or cunning person.
1916A. Wright Under Cloud 35 Look here, Wilson, you're not such a shrewdie as you imagine. 1933E. Partridge Words, Words, Words! iii. 199 Flankenheinrich, to build a ‘flank(ing) Henry’, to show oneself a ‘shrewdy’. 1949F. Sargeson I saw it in my Dream 116 Johnny's a shrewdy. 1956D. M. Davin Sullen Bell ii. viii. 161 There'd been none of the shrewdies who dug themselves into good hospital jobs. 1967‘E. Queen’ Face to Face xx. 95 She couldn't have kept it under wraps indefinitely. Not with a shrewdie like Geegee Guild to account to. 1970Daily Tel. 14 May 13/5 In the train of each social upheaval in America, like jackals at a carcase, come the shrewdies and hucksters in search of a quick dollar. 1979J. Drummond I saw him Die ii. 16 ‘A shrewdie, would you say?’ ‘Very shrewd.’
2. A cunning trick. rare.
1961B. Crump Hang on a Minute 27 Everything was as good as he said it was, but I knew he was pulling a shrewdie on me somewhere. |