隨口指的那個男的(英式、愛爾蘭式)
這一支最貼近核心畫面,幾乎沒有加東西:就是「那個男的」。
noun · C1
A man. British and Irish speakers use this word for any man at all, in the same very casual way that American speakers say guy.
男的;那個傢伙
One way to hold this word: a finger pointed at a man across the street, plus a shrug. The speaker does not know his name and is not going to look for one. Everything else the word does is the shrug filling up with extra content — his age, or his reputation.
Wiktionary traces geezer to guiser, a person who goes about in costume or disguise. That fits the shrug: the word starts with someone whose real identity is not on show.
Wiktionary 把 geezer 追到 guiser——穿上戲服、把自己裝扮起來的人。這條線索正好對得上那個「指一下」的畫面:一開始指的,就是一個看不清楚底細的人。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1015380281): "From guiser."
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隨口指的那個男的(英式、愛爾蘭式)
這一支最貼近核心畫面,幾乎沒有加東西:就是「那個男的」。
noun · C1
A man. British and Irish speakers use this word for any man at all, in the same very casual way that American speakers say guy.
男的;那個傢伙
老頭(美式、加拿大)
一樣是那個「指一下」,只是這一指把年紀也一起指了出來,而且常帶一點嫌他固執、跟不上時代的意思。
noun · C1
An old man. It is a casual, joking word that picks the man out by his age, and it usually hints that he is grumpy or old-fashioned.
老頭;老傢伙