| 单词 | long pig |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong pig long pig n. (esp. in the context of the Pacific Islands) human flesh as food. [After Fijian vuaka balavu ( < vuaka pig + balavu long), claimed in 19th-cent. travellers' accounts to be a common term for human flesh as food (compare quot. 1883).] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] > human flesh long pig1846 1846 J. Watsford Let. 6 Oct. in Wesleyan Missionary Notices 1847 (1848) Sept. 162 They always preferred the ‘long pig’, as they call a man, when baked. 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes II. xiii. 386 No more ‘long-pig’ for him [sc. the Maori]! 1883 A. St. Johnston Camping among Cannibals 227 The expression ‘long pig’ is not a joke, nor a phrase invented by Europeans, but one frequently used by the Fijians, who..called a human body puaka balava, ‘long pig’, in contradistinction to puaka dina, or ‘real pig’. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 14 May 3/1 As a matter of fact, ‘long-pig’ orgies are not common. 1936 T. Lambert Pioneering Reminisc. Old Wairoa 31 Old Wairoa was a land of savages and in war-time ‘long-pig’ was not disdained as an article of diet. 2005 H. Hickam Ambassador's Son (2006) xxxii. 226 They sometimes hunt heads and eat long pig. < as lemmas |
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