| 单词 | new iniquity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnew iniquity new iniquity n. New Zealand colloquial (derogatory; now historical) an unwanted influx of immigrants (originally used spec. of the immigrants who arrived in Dunedin in the 1860s); (as a count noun) a member of such an influx; cf. old identity at identity n. 5. ΚΠ 1871 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 3 July 2 We got new doctors..lawyers..Jew pedlars..et hoc genus omne [in Wanganui], and this infusion of ‘new iniquities’ [to Wanganui] has fairly bedeviled the place. 1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences 25 It is alleged that one minister actually prayed that the stream of rogues and vagabonds which was flowing into the country might be stayed, but this I believe to have been a base invention of the ‘new iniquity’, as the new-comers were nick-named. 1959 K. Sinclair Hist. N.Z. 104 Dunedin became the largest town in the country, while, to the horror of ‘Old Identity’, saloons, billiard rooms, gambling dens and dance halls sprang up to attract the gold of the ‘New Iniquity’. < as lemmas |
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