Windrushn.

Brit.

/ˈwɪndrʌʃ/, U.S.

/ˈwɪn(d)ˌrəʃ/, Caribbean English

/ˈwɪnˌrʌʃ/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: English Windrush.

Etymology: < the name of the Empire Windrush, a British ship which carried 500 Caribbean immigrants to London in 1948.

Caribbean and British.

attributive. Of, designating, or relating to the period of immigration from the Caribbean to Britain in the late 1940s and the 1950s; spec. designating those immigrants who arrived on the Empire Windrush in 1948. Frequently in Windrush generation.

ΚΠ

1948 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 2 July 1/2 (headline) 148 ‘Windrush’ W. Indians get London jobs.

1988 Economist (Nexis) 24 Sept. 142 [They] were determined to believe that things were getting better. For those blacks who have lived in Britain since the Windrush days, they deserve to.

1995 Guardian 22 June ii. 8/4 Sam Selvon produced the classic novel of the ‘Windrush generation’ of post-war migrants from the Caribbean, The Lonely Londoners.

2002 C. Williams Sugar & Slate 99 We are the dribs and drabs of the story with nothing so all embracing as the Windrush landmark.

2004 New Nation 14 June Small Island has been summarised by some as a book about the Windrush generation.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wind-rush n.

ΚΠ

a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) xxxix. 218 Their pure eyes..turned..to that thunder-laced wind-rush of darkness which is the heat and unpicturable secret centre of light's and beauty's self.

1976 ‘A. Hall’ Kobra Manifesto xv. 201 The faint scream of the windrush [under an aeroplane at take-off] in the roaring background.

单词	windrush
释义	Windrushn. Brit. /ˈwɪndrʌʃ/, U.S. /ˈwɪn(d)ˌrəʃ/, Caribbean English /ˈwɪnˌrʌʃ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: English Windrush. Etymology: < the name of the Empire Windrush, a British ship which carried 500 Caribbean immigrants to London in 1948. Caribbean and British. attributive. Of, designating, or relating to the period of immigration from the Caribbean to Britain in the late 1940s and the 1950s; spec. designating those immigrants who arrived on the Empire Windrush in 1948. Frequently in Windrush generation. ΚΠ 1948 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 2 July 1/2 (headline) 148 ‘Windrush’ W. Indians get London jobs. 1988 Economist (Nexis) 24 Sept. 142 [They] were determined to believe that things were getting better. For those blacks who have lived in Britain since the Windrush days, they deserve to. 1995 Guardian 22 June ii. 8/4 Sam Selvon produced the classic novel of the ‘Windrush generation’ of post-war migrants from the Caribbean, The Lonely Londoners. 2002 C. Williams Sugar & Slate 99 We are the dribs and drabs of the story with nothing so all embracing as the Windrush landmark. 2004 New Nation 14 June Small Island has been summarised by some as a book about the Windrush generation. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmas wind-rush wind-rush n. ΚΠ a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) xxxix. 218 Their pure eyes..turned..to that thunder-laced wind-rush of darkness which is the heat and unpicturable secret centre of light's and beauty's self. 1976 ‘A. Hall’ Kobra Manifesto xv. 201 The faint scream of the windrush [under an aeroplane at take-off] in the roaring background. extracted from windn.¹ < n.1948 as lemmas
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