Asian flun.

Brit.

/ˌeɪʒn ˈfluː/,

/ˌeɪʃn ˈfluː/, U.S.

/ˌeɪʒən ˈflu/

Forms: 1900s– Asian flu, 1900s– Asian 'flu. Also with capital initial in the second element.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Asian adj., flu n.

Etymology: < Asian adj. + flu n.With sense 2 compare slightly later Asian contagion n. at Asian n. and adj. Compounds 2.

1. A pandemic of influenza that occurred between 1957 and 1958, and is thought to have arisen in southern China; the strain of influenza virus responsible for this. Also as a modifier.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > influenza

influenza1743

grippe1775

lightning catarrh1836

flu1839

Spanish influenza1890

St. Kilda cold1897

Spanish flu1918

Asian flu1957

Asian influenza1957

Mao flu1968

Asian contagion1997

1957 Lovington (New Mexico) Daily Leader 7 Jan. 1/4 Asian flu, as predicted, proved to be far less of a killer than the 1918 disease.

1957 Economist 31 Aug. 670/2 The type of virus officially called A/Singapore/1/57, and popularly known as..Asian flu.

2011 Avian Dis. 55 598/2 Genetic reassortment might result in a new reassorted virus that could potentially become a virulent strain, as has been the case with the reassorted H2N2 virus or ‘Asian flu’ in 1957.

2020 Lancs. Tel. (Nexis) Oct. 14 Having read the journal I can see similarities between Covid-19 and Asian Flu; not in the disease itself, but in how the government and media have handled it.

2. figurative. A weakening of East Asian economies, spec. the economic crisis beginning in late 1997 which adversely affected the tiger economies (cf. tiger n. Additions) and, in 1998, the Japanese economy; (hence) the global economic insecurity caused by this crisis. Cf. Asian contagion n.In quot. 1990 as part of an extended metaphor.

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1990 Business Week 12 Feb. 84/3 Whether Japan's kushami [= sneeze] will give the U.S. an extended case of Asian Flu will not be known for months.

1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 1 Oct. 24 If Wall Street gets seriously upset by the eastern turmoil, the US economy could be affected and we could all get Asian flu.

2000 J. G. Fernald & O. D. Babson in B. Chen et al. Financial Market Reform in China 78 Hence, it remains possible that China has deferred, not avoided, the ‘Asian flu’.

2017 Insights Res. (Nexis) 24 Jan. Because of the dot-com bubble positively affecting much of the developed world, the whole Asian flu seemed like a foreign affair just as it was officially treated.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	asian flu
释义	Asian flun. Brit. /ˌeɪʒn ˈfluː/, /ˌeɪʃn ˈfluː/, U.S. /ˌeɪʒən ˈflu/ Forms: 1900s– Asian flu, 1900s– Asian 'flu. Also with capital initial in the second element. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Asian adj., flu n. Etymology: < Asian adj. + flu n.With sense 2 compare slightly later Asian contagion n. at Asian n. and adj. Compounds 2. 1. A pandemic of influenza that occurred between 1957 and 1958, and is thought to have arisen in southern China; the strain of influenza virus responsible for this. Also as a modifier. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > influenza influenza1743 grippe1775 lightning catarrh1836 flu1839 Spanish influenza1890 St. Kilda cold1897 Spanish flu1918 Asian flu1957 Asian influenza1957 Mao flu1968 Asian contagion1997 1957 Lovington (New Mexico) Daily Leader 7 Jan. 1/4 Asian flu, as predicted, proved to be far less of a killer than the 1918 disease. 1957 Economist 31 Aug. 670/2 The type of virus officially called A/Singapore/1/57, and popularly known as..Asian flu. 2011 Avian Dis. 55 598/2 Genetic reassortment might result in a new reassorted virus that could potentially become a virulent strain, as has been the case with the reassorted H2N2 virus or ‘Asian flu’ in 1957. 2020 Lancs. Tel. (Nexis) Oct. 14 Having read the journal I can see similarities between Covid-19 and Asian Flu; not in the disease itself, but in how the government and media have handled it. 2. figurative. A weakening of East Asian economies, spec. the economic crisis beginning in late 1997 which adversely affected the tiger economies (cf. tiger n. Additions) and, in 1998, the Japanese economy; (hence) the global economic insecurity caused by this crisis. Cf. Asian contagion n.In quot. 1990 as part of an extended metaphor. ΚΠ 1990 Business Week 12 Feb. 84/3 Whether Japan's kushami [= sneeze] will give the U.S. an extended case of Asian Flu will not be known for months. 1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 1 Oct. 24 If Wall Street gets seriously upset by the eastern turmoil, the US economy could be affected and we could all get Asian flu. 2000 J. G. Fernald & O. D. Babson in B. Chen et al. Financial Market Reform in China 78 Hence, it remains possible that China has deferred, not avoided, the ‘Asian flu’. 2017 Insights Res. (Nexis) 24 Jan. Because of the dot-com bubble positively affecting much of the developed world, the whole Asian flu seemed like a foreign affair just as it was officially treated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1957
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