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单词 first-fleeter
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first-fleeter
first-fleeter n. Australian slang a person who came to Australia aboard one of the ships of the first fleet; a descendant of one of these persons.
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1826 Monitor (Sydney) 1 Sept. 123/2 I am, Sir, Yours, &c. An Old Hand, but not a First Fleeter.
1830 D. McLeod in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1922) 1st Ser. XV. 371 One of the first Fleeters died a few Years ago.
1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. viii. 93 A man who, by his own account, is of so long standing in the neighbourhood as to have been what is called in the colony a ‘first fleeter’.
1961 Bulletin (Sydney) 10 May 4/4 How long will it be before ‘First Fleeters’—descendants of those who arrived with Governor Phillip—manage to work up the same sort of snobbery about their status as America's Pilgrim Fathers have?
1983 J. Hepworth Great Austral. Cities When the First Fleeters clanked ashore To Sydney Town..They threw a rorty party.
1999 Independent on Sunday 14 Nov. (Review Suppl.) 7/2 In our Sydney hierarchy I am like a goddess, a princess, because I'm a surfie girl and a first-fleeter.
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