单词 | marielito |
释义 | Marieliton. U.S. Any of the tens of thousands of Cuban refugees who sailed from Mariel to Florida in 1980 as a result of a temporary relaxation of emigration restrictions by the Cuban government.A number of those permitted to leave Cuba were inmates of prisons or mental institutions. The adverse publicity occasioned by this has led to the term sometimes being used pejoratively. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > exile > [noun] > refugee or stateless person > specific palatine1708 palatinate1709 political refugee1798 reffo1941 war refugee1942 boat person1979 Marielito1980 1980 N.Y. Times 18 Dec. b14/3 There is even a slightly patronizing neologism, ‘marielitos’, meaning roughly ‘the poor little ones from Mariel’, used by Cuban-Americans to describe the new refugees. 1983 A. Holleran Nights in Aruba vi. 190 Mother, I would never allow you to come here now. First, God knows some Marielito would hijack the plane. 1986 New Yorker 17 Feb. 52/3 There was a police report saying that two Marielitos had begun arguing on the street and the argument had ended with one shooting the other dead. 1991 J. Sayles Los Gusanos xx. 173 There is a Marielito in housekeeping at the hospital. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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