peckerwood


n. 啄木鸟

英文词源

peckerwood (n.)
1859, U.S. Southern black dialectal inversion of woodpecker; in folklore, taken as the type of white folks (1929) and symbolically contrasted with blackbird.

实用例句

1. What do we look like, a couple of peckerwood jackasses?
我们看起来象什么, 象不象啄木鸟?
来自互联网

热门英语单词

考试词汇

使用频率

星级词汇

分类标签