- 1英國佬（略帶輕蔑或玩笑，多是美國人叫英國人）
Limey is a slightly insulting, informal word for a British person. Americans used it most; Australians used it too. British people do not usually call themselves this. It comes from the 1800s, when British ships carried lime juice so sailors would not get scurvy, a sickness from too little fresh fruit. People called those ships lime-juicers, and limey later stuck as a nickname for the British. Today it can be a dry joke between friends, or it can sting, depending on the voice and who says it. It is old-fashioned in some circles but still understood. It does not mean “tastes like lime.”
組成Shortened from 19th-century lime-juicer, “a British ship,” from the lime juice those ships carried against scurvy. The surface look lime + -y is real for other “lime” adjectives, but this British-person sense is the shortened ship name.
同家族的字
- limefrom the lime juice British sailors drank on long voyages
- lime-juicerthe older name for a British ship, later shortened to limey
原始詞典資料5 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。
limeyadj/ˈlaɪmi/
- 1
Resembling limes (the fruit); lime-like.
- 2
Of, or pertaining to, limes (the fruit).
- This drink is full of limey goodness.
limeynoun/ˈlaɪmi/
- 1
slurslangAn Englishman or other Briton, or a person of British descent; an English or British immigrant.
- Ya look like anything ’cept a tourist who’s come to lose his wad and they get a bad case of nose trouble. Take yaself. Anyone can see ya’re a Limey even before ya start talking.
- 2
derogatorydatedslangAn English or British ship.
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