peckerwood
英 [pekəwʊd]
美 ['pekəˌwʊd]
- n. 啄木鸟
英语词源
- peckerwood (n.)
- 1859, U.S. Southern black dialectal inversion of woodpecker; in folklore, taken as the type of white folks (1929) and symbolically contrasted with blackbird.
权威例句
- 1. What do we look like, a couple of peckerwood jackasses?
- 我们看起来象什么, 象不象啄木鸟?