释义 |
shypoo Austral. slang.|ˈʃaɪpuː, ʃaɪˈpuː| Also shipoo. [Origin unknown.] Inferior liquor; a public house that sells this. Also attrib.
1901Bulletin Reciter 30 We drank the shypoo deeply, till the lateness of the night. 1908E. G. Murphy Jarrahland Jingles 108 The swell exclusive club, Have swept the shypoo shanty from its lair amid the scrub. 1917[see Aussie n. and a. 1]. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 22 Aug. 20/1 That bubbling drink and spuming We used to call shypoo? 1936H. Drake-Brockman Sheba Lane 237 How about managing that shipoo for me? 1962T. Ronan Deep of Sky 218 A hostelry{ddd}restricted to the sale of beer and wine. Locally this was known as the ‘Shypoo Shop’. I'm not sure of the derivation of ‘Shypoo’. I think it is bastard Chinese for soft drink. To the sturdy second wave of pioneers of West Kimberley, beer and wine were soft drinks. |