| 单词 | honest injun |
| 释义 | > as lemmashonest Injun honest Injun n. colloquial (originally U.S.; now dated and offensive) used as an interjection to assert, or interrogatively as an appeal to, one's truthfulness, honour, or sincerity; cf. honour bright at honour n. Phrases 9; also as adv., and (occasionally) as adj.; cf. slightly earlier honest Indian n. ΚΠ 1857 Porter's Spirit of Times 23 May 182/3 Jersey, honest injun. Did you really kill those birds? 1858 Trinity Jrnl. (Weaverville, Calif.) 3 Apr. We did'nt say hang, once; honest Injun. We appeal to posterity. 1875 B. W. Howard One Summer x. 96 Do yer ask honest Injun, no cheatin' nor nothin'? 1885 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 9 July 4/5 You never catch the North Texan ..deviating one single jot from the strict old George Washington honest Injun truth. 1896 G. B. Shaw Let. 8 Sept. in E. Terry & G. B. Shaw Corr. (1931) 54 A thing she would never have done if she had not forgiven him quite thoroughly—honest Injun. 1905 Play Pictorial No. 40. 24/1 I'm bound to tell yer the honest Injun truth. 1950 L. A. G. Strong Which I Never i. 12 ‘You've invented him.’ ‘Which I never, sir...’ ‘Honest Injun?’ 2015 A. Titley tr. M. Ó Cadhain Dirty Dust i. 20 I don't get it, Margaret. Honest Injun, I just don't get it. < as lemmas |
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