英语词汇“gombeen”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

gombeen

/ɡɒmˈbiːn

noun [mass noun, as modifier] Irish

Involved in the lending of money at unreasonably high interest rates: a gombeen man...

So when the business elite dips into their well padded pockets to fund our dominant political parties for their next election campaign, they can pride themselves on a job already well done, for they have chosen their gombeen men well.
‘We should try not to think in old-fashioned ways that have more to do with gombeen days,’ he said.
Our natural resources have been signed over to them by our untrustworthy gombeen men - the so-called politicians.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Irish gaimbín, perhaps from the same Celtic source as medieval Latin cambire 'to change'.

单词	gombeen
释义	gombeen /ɡɒmˈbiːn / noun [mass noun, as modifier] Irish Involved in the lending of money at unreasonably high interest rates: a gombeen man... So when the business elite dips into their well padded pockets to fund our dominant political parties for their next election campaign, they can pride themselves on a job already well done, for they have chosen their gombeen men well. ‘We should try not to think in old-fashioned ways that have more to do with gombeen days,’ he said. Our natural resources have been signed over to them by our untrustworthy gombeen men - the so-called politicians. Origin Mid 19th century: from Irish gaimbín, perhaps from the same Celtic source as medieval Latin cambire 'to change'. Rhymes Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean
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