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

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...

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.
Negotiations could put that difference to rights in this new age of the 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.

单词	bunyip aristocracy
释义	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... 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. Negotiations could put that difference to rights in this new age of the 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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