單詞
tarbrush
['tɑ:br??]
基本信息
- n.
- 柏油刷
- [蔑語、貶義、冒犯語、俚語]黑人血統；印第安人血統
英文詞源
- tarbrush (n.)
- 1711, from tar (n.1) + brush (n.1). To have a touch of the tarbrush "have a dash of African ancestry visible in the skin tone" (1796) was "a term of contempt from the West Indies" [Century Dictionary].
雙語例句
- 1. You might have a touch of the tarbrush yourself.
- 你自己可能有點黑人血統.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
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