单词 | to go fante |
释义 | > as lemmasto go fante 2. to go fante: to associate with the indigenous people of a district and conform to their behaviour and customs; = to go native at go v. Additions 6. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > direct one's conduct by a rule [verb (intransitive)] > conform > conform to native habits to go fante1885 to go native1901 1885 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1886) 59 ‘Went Fantee’—joined the people of the land. Turned three parts Mussalman and one Hindu. 1888 R. Kipling Miss Youghal's Sais in Plain Tales from Hills 23 He was perpetually ‘going Fantee’ among natives. 1906 Daily Chron. 9 Aug. 8/5 Caluna, too, had ‘gone fanti’, and was raiding and pillaging. 1930 G. K. Chesterton Four Faultless Felons 190 He was a white man, or whitish man, who had gone fantee, and wore nothing but a pair of spectacles. < as lemmas |
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