| 单词 | jack the painter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJack the Painter Jack the Painter n. [perhaps with reference to it staining the drinker's mouth] Australian (now historical) a coarse green tea drunk in the Australian bush. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > types of dry tea > green tea imperial tea1699 imperial1713 green1728 gunpowder1771 cow-slip tea1796 Twankay1840 Jack the Painter1848 1848 Bell's Life in Sydney 4 Mar. A poley-quart-pot simmering at the fire, indicated that it was ready to receive the ‘pinch of Jack the Painter.’ 1880 G. Walch Victoria in 1880 113 Special huts had to be provided for them [sc. the sundowners], where they enjoyed eleemosynary rations of mutton, damper, and ‘Jack the Painter’. 1937 D. Glass Austral. Fantasy 89 ‘Jack the Painter’, which extra potent version was apt to leave its mark around the drinker's mouth. 2005 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 17 July 31 Winking at the bemused barman, he added: ‘Makes a change from Jack the painter.’ < as lemmas |
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