- 1精彩至極的事、過癮的一場（口語，帶「不得了」的意思）
A humdinger is something unusually good, , or strong — often a game, a show, a storm, or a loud argument. Informal and a bit old-fashioned-cheerful; you hear it in US English especially, and in sports talk. 'That match was a humdinger' means it was a cracker: close, loud, worth watching. Though actually, it can be any stand-out thing, not only games — a humdinger of a headache is a very bad one, and a humdinger of a story is one you will remember. Not a classroom word; more spoken, and newspaper-casual. It is a thing you can point to (a noun), not a way of being.
組成US word, first seen in a Montana newspaper in 1883. It may be a blend of hummer (something that moves fast) and dinger (something outstanding), but that is not certain.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
humdingernoun/hʌmˈdɪŋ.ə(ɹ)/
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informalSomething that is particularly outstanding, unusual, or exceptional.
- Most of the questions were pretty easy, but that last one was a humdinger.
- “—immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.” “Superman?” Clevinger cried. “Superman?” “Supraman,” Yossarian corrected.
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