单词 | alf garnett |
释义 | Alf Garnettn. British. A man resembling Alf Garnett in behaviour or outlook, esp. in being white, working-class, and right-wing, and in vehemently expressing sexist, racist, and xenophobic views. ΚΠ 1968 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 31 Jan. 4/3 Periodicals like the New Statesman, arguing against any move to topple Britain's prime minister, warn that the choice ‘is between Mr. Wilson and the Alf Garnetts’. 1970 Sunday Times 25 Jan. 11/8 Lord Hunt worries that ‘the Alf Garnetts’ may become the decisive voice in our society. 1982 D. Hebdige in N. Knight Skinhead 30/2 The exaggerated tribalism, the bullheaded racism of an Alf Garnett. 1990 Independent 4 Apr. 19/8 For Mr Heseltine, Mr Tebbit would bring to it the Alf Garnett qualities that he, noblesse oblige, finds ‘rather difficult’. 2001 B. Evans Life & Soul of Party iii. 59 Is Gray's father..an Alf Garnett transplanted to South Australia via an assisted passage in the 1960s? This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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