| 单词 | wowserism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈwowserism ˈwowserism n. the practice or beliefs of a wowser or wowsers. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Puritanism > [noun] Catharism1573 precisianism1573 puritanism1573 Purantism1596 cloak1649 saintism1691 Perfectism1830 hot gospelling1876 wowserism1936 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > fanatical wowserism1936 1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger l. 377 Novels which..provoked attention by their unreticent details of bodily functionings and provided capital sport when flung in the face of fin de siècle wowserism. 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. i. 21 Wowserism is prohibition elevated into a philosophy. 1971 Observer 14 Mar. 15/2 Australia's peculiar ‘wowserism’, the often unpredictable censorship of films, books and shows by the authorities, is largely a function of older Australia. 1984 Daily Tel. 24 Aug. 10/4 When Pierre Trudeau visited Australia in 1970 he told the natives: ‘You have wowserism; we have Toronto.’ < as lemmas |
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