单词 | mau-mauing |
释义 | mau-mauingn. colloquial (chiefly North American). The action of mau-mau v. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [noun] threatc1000 threating1046 threateningc1290 menacec1300 menacingc1385 shore1487 interminationa1530 minacitya1538 shoring1573 menacement1606 minacy1645 peril1892 Mau Mau1970 mau-mauing1970 1970 T. Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-mauing Flak Catchers (1971) 124 In public you used the same term the whites used, namely, ‘confrontation’. The term ‘mau-mauing’ was a source of amusement in private. The term mau-mauing said, ‘The white man has a voodoo fear of us, because deep down he still thinks we're savages. Right? So we're going to do that Savage number for him.’ 1974 Maclean's Dec. 108/1 After a threat is made for the fifth, twelfth or fortieth time, the excitement wears off;..each hollow boast brings more government money tinkling into the Indian organizations' pockets. American writer Tom Wolfe calls the technique ‘mau-mauing.’ 1988 Independent 1 Aug. 16/2 Mau-mauing was the process by which black ‘community leaders’ demonstrate..their legitimacy to white funding bodies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1970 |
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