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单词 bunyip aristocracy
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Definition of bunyip aristocracy in English:

bunyip aristocracy

noun
Australian derogatory
  • People who consider themselves to be socially superior.

    they publish a list of Australia's bunyip aristocracy of notable families
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There has always been a bunyip aristocracy in Australia that has been offended by the idea of having to pay to acquire labour.
    • The conceptual confusion in the article may come from an insufficient awareness of the stakes of the struggles against colonial bunyip aristocracies so many years ago.
    • South Australia seems to be the last redoubt in Australia of the fawning, bunyip Aristocracy that yearns after the good old days where everyone was in their place.
    • They were accused of trying to create a fake class system in Australia, a "bunyip aristocracy" that would distort our current honours system.
    • The new government should transfer power from Downing Street into their own hands - to a new Colonial aristocracy, what was later ridiculed as a bunyip aristocracy.
    • The radical politician denounced her scheme as a bunyip aristocracy.
    • His unsuccessful plea for an upper house based on a hereditary colonial peerage was mocked as a bunyip aristocracy.
    • Monday's honours list included one cringeworthy addition to the bunyip aristocracy of knights and dames.
    • Negotiations could put that difference to rights in this new age of the bunyip aristocracy.
    • He described the would-be peers as a 'bunyip aristocracy'.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from bunyip + aristocracy. The phrase was coined in 1853 by the political orator Daniel Deniehy (1828–65), in a speech that ridiculed attempts to establish a titled aristocracy in Australia, by equating the validity of such a notion to the bunyip, a creature from Aboriginal mythology.

 
 
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