| 单词 | big or great white chief |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbig or great white chief b. spec. The head man or ruler of a clan, tribe, or small primitive community. big or great white chief: a jocular name (modelled on the speech of American Indians) given to a person of authority or importance. Cf. Great White Father n. (b) at great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1e. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] alderOE patriarchc1200 prince?c1225 chief1587 top1615 chieftain1837 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a great part or proportion > the greater part, the majority the more partOE the best part ofOE (the) more parta1350 (the) most parta1350 (the) most part alla1350 (the) most party1372 for (also be, in) the most part (also deal, party)a1387 the better part ofa1393 the mo?a1400 most forcea1400 substancea1413 corsec1420 generalty?c1430 the greater partc1430 three quartersc1470 generalityc1485 the most feck1488 corpse1533 most1553 nine-tenths?1556 better half1566 generality?1570 pluralityc1570 body1574 the great body (of)1588 flush1592 three fourths1600 best1601 heap1609 gross1625 lump1709 bulk1711 majority1714 nineteen in twenty1730 balance1747 sweighta1800 heft1816 chief1841 the force1842 thick end1847 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important persona1425 personagec1460 colossus1605 satrapon1650 bigwig1772 big man1789 butt-cut1806 tallboy1820 buzz-wig1854 great or high shot1861 celestial1874 pot1880 big stuff1883 importance1886 big wheel1893 mandarin1907 the (also a) big noise1909 hotty1910 big boy1918 biggie1926 hotshot1933 wheel1933 eminence1935 top hat1936 big or great white chief1937 Mr Big1940 big kahuna1966 1587 Sc. Acts (1597) §94 Clannes..dependis vpon the directiones of the saidis Captaines, chiefes, and chieftaines. 1695 C. Leslie Gallienus Redivivus 9 He gives these Directions to Collonel Hill. Till we see what is done by the Chiefs, it is not time to Receive their Tenants. 1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 17 While naked Youth and painted Chiefs admire Our speech, our Colour, and our strange Attire. 1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming (ad fin.) The death-song of an Indian chief! 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xxii. 343 Proud chiefs of Clan Ranald, Glengary, and Sleat! View more context for this quotation 1835 W. G. Simms Yemassee I. 95 Does the white chief come to the great council of the Yemassee as a fur trader?] 1841 T. B. Macaulay Warren Hastings in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 179 Their chiefs, when united by a common peril, could bring eighty thousand men into the field. 1937 M. Allingham Dancers in Mourning xxvi. 315 I see a chap who is a sort of great white chief in his own little world. 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime iii. 43 ‘Was that Aunt Jane I saw going off in the car?’ ‘That was the Big White Chief.’ 1949 E. Coxhead Wind in West ii. 37 You've actually seen the Great White Chief. Jove, what an experience. < as lemmas |
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