| 单词 | hottentotic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHottenˈtotic Hottenˈtotic adj. now rare of or relating to the Khoi (or Khoisan) people, lands, or language; (also derogatory) unrefined, uncivilized; brutish. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [adjective] > Khoekhoe Hottentot1708 Hottentotic1794 Hottentotish1795 1794 E. Williams Poems II. 37 On Hottentotic arts refine, let Fashion's glories all be thine. 1824 J. Gilchrist Etymol. Interpreter 14 The origin of Cossackic and Hottentotic, and of all the languages of all the uncivilized and half-civilized tribes of the earth. 1874 J. Barnard Among Gods, & other Poems 91 Once more on the Ocean despotic, We sail from the shores Hottentotic. 1900 J. M. Robertson Christianity & Mythol. i. ii. 23 M. Baudry..countered Dr. Muller before the ‘Hottentotic’ school did. < as lemmas |
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