词族 · homeboy
词形变化
英语词源
- homeboy (n.)
- "person from one's hometown," 1940s, American English, black slang, also originally with overtones of "simpleton." With many variants (compare homebuddy, homeslice, both 1980s, with meaning shading toward "good friend"). The word had been used by Ruskin (1886) with the sense "stay-at-home male," and it was Canadian slang for "boy brought up in an orphanage or other institution" (1913).
权威例句
- 1. Homeboy Pete all dressed up to the nines.
- 家乡人皮特居然打扮得漂漂亮亮.
- 2. Then, inexplicably, Homeboy starts laughing and smiling at me. " Okay, you go now. No problem. "
- 这时, 莫名其妙地, 那家伙向我露出了笑容: “ 好吧, 你可以走了. ”